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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 08:07 AM EST |
Children pick up worse than that in the playground.
Seriously, why do people get so pent up over language used? I don't get upset
about people using "gay" to mean "homosexual" instead of
"happy", and I've mostly come to terms with people using
"hacker" to mean "cracker" instead of "person who does
cool stuff with technology" (but I still don't like it in technical usage).
Language changes, swearing terms become common usage, new "forbidden
words" appear, and the rebellious use them until they become accepted as
well.
And for the record, I wouldn't adjust my language used in front of PJ's
Grandmother *AT ALL*. She's far older than me, and will have heard far worse
than anything I could possibly come up with (at least without trauling 4chan for
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Authored by: cjk fossman on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 10:21 AM EST |
I was a little surprised to find those quotes in the news
picks, but PJ put 'em there.
If she wants to take exception to her own rules, that's her
prerogative.
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Authored by: ukjaybrat on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 10:34 AM EST |
I think for the most part it's an engineer's mentality. most
engineers aren't big scary guys that work out a lot (the
stereotype being we're all a bunch of puny white/asian kids
that program all the time). so we have grown to using foul
language to assert dominance over another engineer. I know
this explanation is a little apish and i am in no way
condoning it, just offering a possible explanation.
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