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I mean... I _do_ think that language sensitivities are overblown these days. E.g. the majority of women participants did not "agree or strongly agree" that NIPS

I mean... I _do_ think that language sensitivities are overblown these days. E.g. the majority of women participants did not "agree or strongly agree" that NIPS should become NeurIPS, yet it did. GIMP and Git are words that most non-native English speakers don't have a strong association with. So they get a pass in most of the world. But cock is as universal a swear word as you will find on this planet. If I do a retreat in the village of Fucking, and write a compiler there, and then call it TFC -- the Fucking compiler, I know what I am doing.

Gare 2y ago
> If I do a retreat in the village of Fucking Funnily enough, they have renamed it to Fugging in 2021 because of annoying tourists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria
peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> But cock is as universal a swear word is it? Are you confused with Dick? the name of course... Ironically the word dick comes from the German language, meaning "dominant ruler"
- croemer 2y ago
  Dick means fat/big in German
  - peoplefromibiza 2y ago
    sorry, my bad, you're right of course, I meant not literally but as a short name for Richard
didntcheck 2y ago
Well we do have the Brain Fuck Scheduler Frankly I'd welcome more rejection of corporate safetyism. We're adults, not kids in a "Christian Minecraft server"
yau8edq12i 2y ago
> But cock is as universal a swear word as you will find on this planet. It's not, though. Come to France, say "coq" - people will wonder why you're talking about roosters all of a sudden. Holy Anglo-centrism, Batman...
- Certhas 2y ago
  I am German. German culture does not have the Anglo Saxon obsession with swear words to begin with. The US/British obsession with keeping dirty words from children's ears is a never-ending source of amusement for me. I think you missed my point. "As universal as you will find" does not mean universal. It means There is nothing "more universal" - no word understood as a swear word by more people. There is no absolutely universal swear word. Obviously. But English is spoken by a lot of people, most of them not native, most of whom don't have a native word that sounds like cock as a first association.

Gare 2y ago

> If I do a retreat in the village of Fucking Funnily enough, they have renamed it to Fugging in 2021 because of annoying tourists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

peoplefromibiza 2y ago

> But cock is as universal a swear word is it? Are you confused with Dick? the name of course... Ironically the word dick comes from the German language, meaning "dominant ruler"

croemer 2y ago
Dick means fat/big in German
- peoplefromibiza 2y ago
  sorry, my bad, you're right of course, I meant not literally but as a short name for Richard

didntcheck 2y ago

Well we do have the Brain Fuck Scheduler Frankly I'd welcome more rejection of corporate safetyism. We're adults, not kids in a "Christian Minecraft server"

yau8edq12i 2y ago

> But cock is as universal a swear word as you will find on this planet. It's not, though. Come to France, say "coq" - people will wonder why you're talking about roosters all of a sudden. Holy Anglo-centrism, Batman...

Certhas 2y ago
I am German. German culture does not have the Anglo Saxon obsession with swear words to begin with. The US/British obsession with keeping dirty words from children's ears is a never-ending source of amusement for me. I think you missed my point. "As universal as you will find" does not mean universal. It means There is nothing "more universal" - no word understood as a swear word by more people. There is no absolutely universal swear word. Obviously. But English is spoken by a lot of people, most of them not native, most of whom don't have a native word that sounds like cock as a first association.