<story><title>I Don&apos;t Want Your Fucking App</title><url>http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>(I&apos;m the creator of the site)&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve noticed - and I may be wrong - that all the folk in the UK are unfazed by the swearing and have reacted quite positively either in person or on Twitter.&lt;p&gt;The Americans, by contrast, seem a lot more upset about the swearing.  I wonder why that is?&lt;p&gt;Either way, I do wonder if some sections of the tech community are to... corporate in their approach to language.  Look at the fuss when Linus went on a rant about Nvidia.  That&apos;s how people speak in real life when they are angry or passionate.  We shouldn&apos;t lose that simply because of a perceived lack of professionalism.&lt;p&gt;The swearing, in my tumblr&apos;s case, is designed to be repetitious to the point of banality.  It is, if you like, an exercise in over-reaction.</text></item><item><author>Wintamute</author><text>How about we drop the prudishness, and discuss the points raised by the article? Seriously, what&apos;s with all the language moralising? This guys is totally free to make his points colourfully and passionately however he wants to. If it upsets you so much (it really shouldn&apos;t) then don&apos;t read it. His word choices are not hate speech or discriminatory so the fact that they may offend your sensibilities has precisely zero relevance to anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelfeathers</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The Americans, by contrast, seem a lot more upset about the swearing. I wonder why that is?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s a prudish streak in the US that I really believe comes from the fact that the country was originally settled by people too religious and too concerned with overtly moral social interaction to be tolerated in 17th century England.&lt;p&gt;That may seem like too easy an explanation but I really do think there is some truth to it.  Despite the excesses in American culture, that sort of casual swearing still gets backlash when it goes beyond people who are familiar with each other.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Don&apos;t Want Your Fucking App</title><url>http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>(I&apos;m the creator of the site)&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve noticed - and I may be wrong - that all the folk in the UK are unfazed by the swearing and have reacted quite positively either in person or on Twitter.&lt;p&gt;The Americans, by contrast, seem a lot more upset about the swearing.  I wonder why that is?&lt;p&gt;Either way, I do wonder if some sections of the tech community are to... corporate in their approach to language.  Look at the fuss when Linus went on a rant about Nvidia.  That&apos;s how people speak in real life when they are angry or passionate.  We shouldn&apos;t lose that simply because of a perceived lack of professionalism.&lt;p&gt;The swearing, in my tumblr&apos;s case, is designed to be repetitious to the point of banality.  It is, if you like, an exercise in over-reaction.</text></item><item><author>Wintamute</author><text>How about we drop the prudishness, and discuss the points raised by the article? Seriously, what&apos;s with all the language moralising? This guys is totally free to make his points colourfully and passionately however he wants to. If it upsets you so much (it really shouldn&apos;t) then don&apos;t read it. His word choices are not hate speech or discriminatory so the fact that they may offend your sensibilities has precisely zero relevance to anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obviouslygreen</author><text>While I have no idea about other places (unfortunately), as an American, I find my countrymen (oh crap, should that be countrypersons?!) are indeed eye-rollingly oversensitive about profanity and political correctness in general.&lt;p&gt;It ends up being a good measure of a social situation.  As soon as I decide I&apos;m around people that might be interesting, I will slowly decrease the child-friendliness of my language.  The subtle reactions to the first use of &quot;fuck&quot; tells you a lot about how open-minded people are likely to be.&lt;p&gt;I can understand being careful in your use of language in corporate environments, simply because -- at least here -- offending the wrong people with colorful expression can easily compromise your employment or promotion opportunities.  Granted, I&apos;d say that&apos;s not a great environment to work in, but some people don&apos;t have quite the flexibility in what they can do or where they can do it in terms of taking or leaving job opportunities.</text></comment>