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Uh-oh. I'm Australian and we love a good swear-word every now & then. It's gonna be raining purple squiggles for me. We once had a tourism campaign that ran ov

Uh-oh. I'm Australian and we love a good swear-word every now & then. It's gonna be raining purple squiggles for me. We once had a tourism campaign that ran overseas. The slogan was "So where the bloody hell are ya?". In Australia, it's very common to say "bloody" in everyday conversation, and it's not at all offensive. But in the UK apparently this was very offensive, and the ad was banned. [1] We're so cavalier with swearing, a tourism campaign for the Northern Territory was literally "C U in the NT" [2]. To this day I still see the stickers for this campaign on cars, all the way down in Melbourne! My point being, different cultures have pretty different attitudes to what is "offensive". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_where_the_bloody_hell_are_you%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_where_the_bloody_hell_are_y... [2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/c-u-in-the-nt-tourism-slogan-causes-social-media-stir/8004430 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/c-u-in-the-nt-tourism...

sen 5y ago
That was my first thought, the americanisation of global culture (especially online) already causes so many annoying issues. My kids get confused on how to spell things because everything online and in TV/movies is different to what we tell them. They get auto-correct on their devices telling them they're making mistakes when they're not (such as Firefox in this very comment underlining "americanisation" and telling me it should use a Z, despite my language being set to EN-AU). We have people forgetting our own slang and historically-common phrases because they've been replaced in popular media with American equivalents. Is Google going to detect the persons location and suggest things relevant to their local culture? Of course not, they're going to tell my kid to speak more american or punish them with red (or purple in this new case) underlines which makes them feel bad... despite them doing nothing wrong.

sen 5y ago

That was my first thought, the americanisation of global culture (especially online) already causes so many annoying issues. My kids get confused on how to spell things because everything online and in TV/movies is different to what we tell them. They get auto-correct on their devices telling them they're making mistakes when they're not (such as Firefox in this very comment underlining "americanisation" and telling me it should use a Z, despite my language being set to EN-AU). We have people forgetting our own slang and historically-common phrases because they've been replaced in popular media with American equivalents. Is Google going to detect the persons location and suggest things relevant to their local culture? Of course not, they're going to tell my kid to speak more american or punish them with red (or purple in this new case) underlines which makes them feel bad... despite them doing nothing wrong.