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I know this guy is Someone Important, but what's with the juvenile writing style? Is it really necessary to cuss every other word? Is this a blog post by an exp

I know this guy is Someone Important, but what's with the juvenile writing style? Is it really necessary to cuss every other word? Is this a blog post by an experienced tech commentator or a drunken sailor?

cassepipe 6y ago
Well I at least is not hiding the emotion that the matter causes him. What's wrong with druken sailors writing ? Btw I don't see the link between "being important" (debatable : I did not know who the guy was) and cursing ? Are you implying that he is somehow taking advantage of his social position to have the right to curse ? If so, It's a weird statement as I don't see many important people doing that.
- ceilingcorner 6y ago
  It's simple. I like to read intelligent articles about technology and China. I don't like to read articles that have cussing every other sentence. It's just crass, vulgar, and serves absolutely no purpose. - fuck: found 40 times - shit: found 16 times Completely unnecessary. Get an editor and act like an adult, please, Mr. Yegge.
  - libertine 6y ago
    You completely missed the true simplicity of it: this article is not for you, and that's fine.
istorical 6y ago
Your so-called 'juvenile style' is what others would call not being as boring as watching paint dry. If Steve's goal is to write content that will spread and find as many eyes as possible, being entertaining instead of just pretentious and overly reverent seems to me to be a great strategy.
- ceilingcorner 6y ago
  How is saying fuck and shit every other word entertaining? Idiocracy, here we come.
  - istorical 6y ago
    Blasphemy, obscenity, indecency, licentiousness, all of these types of things are as old as time. The fact that they are taboo, or disgusting, or offensive, or indecent is actually what gives them both their power and their entertainment and excitement value. In other words, it's only entertaining because it offends someone like you. If you didn't care about the word fuck or shit, those words would lose their meaning and probably fall out of popularity only to be replaced by a new word or phrase that offended common sensibility. All that being said I completely recognize it's a matter of taste and think it's perfectly valid for you both to not like it and to express that dislike. And I don't mean to express any argument, just explain why some would enjoy it.
    - ceilingcorner 6y ago
      I'm not offended, I simply find it juvenile. I wouldn't be offended if Barack Obama burped and said fuck during a speech, I'd simply find it to be unnecessary. Not everyone that dislikes swearing is a moral puritan, you know?

cassepipe 6y ago

Well I at least is not hiding the emotion that the matter causes him. What's wrong with druken sailors writing ? Btw I don't see the link between "being important" (debatable : I did not know who the guy was) and cursing ? Are you implying that he is somehow taking advantage of his social position to have the right to curse ? If so, It's a weird statement as I don't see many important people doing that.

ceilingcorner 6y ago
It's simple. I like to read intelligent articles about technology and China. I don't like to read articles that have cussing every other sentence. It's just crass, vulgar, and serves absolutely no purpose. - fuck: found 40 times - shit: found 16 times Completely unnecessary. Get an editor and act like an adult, please, Mr. Yegge.
- libertine 6y ago
  You completely missed the true simplicity of it: this article is not for you, and that's fine.

istorical 6y ago

Your so-called 'juvenile style' is what others would call not being as boring as watching paint dry. If Steve's goal is to write content that will spread and find as many eyes as possible, being entertaining instead of just pretentious and overly reverent seems to me to be a great strategy.

ceilingcorner 6y ago
How is saying fuck and shit every other word entertaining? Idiocracy, here we come.
- istorical 6y ago
  Blasphemy, obscenity, indecency, licentiousness, all of these types of things are as old as time. The fact that they are taboo, or disgusting, or offensive, or indecent is actually what gives them both their power and their entertainment and excitement value. In other words, it's only entertaining because it offends someone like you. If you didn't care about the word fuck or shit, those words would lose their meaning and probably fall out of popularity only to be replaced by a new word or phrase that offended common sensibility. All that being said I completely recognize it's a matter of taste and think it's perfectly valid for you both to not like it and to express that dislike. And I don't mean to express any argument, just explain why some would enjoy it.
  - ceilingcorner 6y ago
    I'm not offended, I simply find it juvenile. I wouldn't be offended if Barack Obama burped and said fuck during a speech, I'd simply find it to be unnecessary. Not everyone that dislikes swearing is a moral puritan, you know?