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I disagree, I think its recent growth in use is a smooth addition to the language, even if we do already have plenty of synonyms for 'bad'. Speaking of those, y

I disagree, I think its recent growth in use is a smooth addition to the language, even if we do already have plenty of synonyms for 'bad'. Speaking of those, your very classy 'stupid' hasn't exactly clarified much either.

lamontcg 5y ago
It isn't just "bad", it denies knowledge of any cause and shrugs it off. If you're looking at broken tech and you shrug it off as "oh well its just cursed" then you're never going to solve the problem. The frequent posts on this site where someone drilled down through multiple levels and determined root causes of issues and mitigations were not written by someone who though the problem was "cursed". The use of that word implicitly turns the user's brain off from understanding any further. And I continually see it used more often. And there's always a reason. Literally nothing is "cursed". You can choose to not dig into the causes because time is finite, but using that kind of language makes the decision for you. And that's relevant to this site, if you want to solve those kinds of problems you need to not view things as being "cursed". Really that word is being used more and more in a way which is explicitly damaging to understanding. If you want to be more successful in your career in tech, you should really cut it out of your vocabulary since it is a self-defeating word.
- notabee 5y ago
  If this is the case, then that's not how I was using that word at all. More like, I feel cursed to know this potential outcome, and feel like blissful ignorance might be preferable. Quite the opposite of what you're inferring, I'm going to be reading much further on this issue because it's important. Obviously this is a really specific pet peeve of yours, in a specific context, that doesn't have much to do with what I said. Maybe you just saw the word, had an emotional response based on the behavioral of some individuals you know, and your brain turned off to reading the context of what I actually said.
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lamontcg 5y ago

It isn't just "bad", it denies knowledge of any cause and shrugs it off. If you're looking at broken tech and you shrug it off as "oh well its just cursed" then you're never going to solve the problem. The frequent posts on this site where someone drilled down through multiple levels and determined root causes of issues and mitigations were not written by someone who though the problem was "cursed". The use of that word implicitly turns the user's brain off from understanding any further. And I continually see it used more often. And there's always a reason. Literally nothing is "cursed". You can choose to not dig into the causes because time is finite, but using that kind of language makes the decision for you. And that's relevant to this site, if you want to solve those kinds of problems you need to not view things as being "cursed". Really that word is being used more and more in a way which is explicitly damaging to understanding. If you want to be more successful in your career in tech, you should really cut it out of your vocabulary since it is a self-defeating word.

notabee 5y ago
If this is the case, then that's not how I was using that word at all. More like, I feel cursed to know this potential outcome, and feel like blissful ignorance might be preferable. Quite the opposite of what you're inferring, I'm going to be reading much further on this issue because it's important. Obviously this is a really specific pet peeve of yours, in a specific context, that doesn't have much to do with what I said. Maybe you just saw the word, had an emotional response based on the behavioral of some individuals you know, and your brain turned off to reading the context of what I actually said.
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