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Irritating when people try to draw our attention to otherwise banal things by exploiting the shock value of swearing. People that swear liberally in everyday c
by cbeach 2y ago
Irritating when people try to draw our attention to otherwise banal things by exploiting the shock value of swearing.
People that swear liberally in everyday conversation irritate me intensely.
- beingforthebene 2y agoBrainfuck isn't exploiting the shock value of swearing--it's accurately describing the experience of using it.
- righthand 2y agoWell shit, seems like there’s no talking to you about Brainfuck then.
- metabagel 2y ago> Brainfuck is an example of a so-called Turing tarpit: it can be used to write any program, but it is not practical to do so, because it provides so little abstraction that the programs get very long or complicated. While Brainfuck is fully Turing complete, it is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse programmers.[3][4] Brainfuck requires one to break commands into microscopic steps. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
- quickslowdown 2y agoConversely, people who get all pearl clutchy about their poor, sensitive wittle ears when I swear irritate the shit out of me. We're not in elementary school, adults say fuck and that's ok.
- commodoreboxer 2y agoPeople who get uptight about swearing irritate me. I understand getting upset about racial slurs or other actually loaded language, but getting upset about the word "fuck" but not "sex" is just making up things to be upset about.
- UberFly 2y agoSome people just don't like the overall crudening of society. Get over it.
- worthless-trash 2y agoYou missed an opportunity to say "Get the fuck over it". :|
- pjerem 2y agoI do think it’s an important social issue though. Swear words communicate important and precise emotions that no other words can communicate. I totally understand why some words aren’t appropriate in a given social setting but it doesn’t mean the words are forbidden. Also those words can hurt when they are directed towards someone and you have to be cautious with them. But sometimes you want to hurt someone, sometimes you want to shock your audience. Sometimes you just want to laugh. We are animals full of emotions and we need precise words to communicate them rapidly.
- tgv 2y ago> precise I wouldn't call "fuck" precise. Its meaning is highly context dependent. Examples of use range from from disappointment (fuck) to anger (fuck you) to surprise (the fuck?) to delight ('merica, fuck yeah) to contempt (clusterfuck). It's closer to an intensifier than a precise denotation of a particular emotion, because it evades a precise meaning. Other words certainly can communicate the same semantic function, but there isn't one that covers them all, even though shit comes close, which is a statement about the Freudian mind if there ever was one.
- tbrownaw 2y agoAbstaining from extraneous precision is itself a kind of precision.
- anonzzzies 2y agoDon't like or getting irritated are different things, at least for me. Irritation brings me in another state; for instance, if I am working (in the zone) and see/hear something that irritates me, I am out of the zone. However, if I see something I don't like, that doesn't do anything with my state; I will try to avoid the thing but won't give it a ms more thought. Not sure if that's a general thing or just me. > Get over it. Nah, people are different and you shouldn't get annoyed or irritated or tell people get 'get over it'; you can, but it's not very good for your health to care too much about stuff you cannot possibly change. Just don't hang with these people if you don't like them.
- porksoda 2y agoYes. That's true in most cases but let them youn uns have some fun will ya!
- shakna 2y agoThe High Court of Australia ruled that swearing isn't by itself offensive. So I s'pose you're shit out of luck if you cross our border.
- prmoustache 2y agoYou have to keep in mind that brainfuck has been invented by a Swiss student. There are 2 clues. Student is obvious. Being Swiss might not be but is one. People not living in an english speaking country have a different appreciation of swearing in english as they are exposed to it differently: appart from our english classes at school we learn and hear english mostly in songs, movies, TV shows, even modern literature. We are pretty much inundates by the f-word which makes it more an innocent word than in britain and us english. A few days ago I was doing some cleaning in the house. Usually I rather put music but this time I chose a tv shows instead. Bad idea, it makes you much slower. Bottom line is I chose action-drama Banshee randomly. It seems they literally say fuck or motherfucking every 30 seconds! So my advice would be: before complaining of people living abroad and using the f-word, maybe you guys should clean your house and stop putting the f-word in every fucking piece of media you sell all over the motherfucking world. Also swearing can be cultural. For example wear I live in Spain swearing is part of the normal language. Grandparents all say words like coño and de puta madre all day long and nobody seems to blink when their 4 year old kids do the same.
- prmoustache 2y agoI realized after reading my reply I made a lot of ortho and grammar errors, sorry for that, can't edit it now.
- pezezin 2y ago> Also swearing can be cultural. For example wear I live in Spain swearing is part of the normal language. Grandparents all say words like coño and de puta madre all day long and nobody seems to blink when their 4 year old kids do the same. I am Spanish, can confirm. Also, the bleeping that you hear in American TV shows and the whole concept of F-bombs (or similar) sounds ridiculous and extremely prudish to us.
- saagarjha 2y ago[flagged]
- gosub100 2y agoYou, yourself were in fact the byproduct of one.