I was always taught if you had nothing good to say, don’t say it at all. I think it is very generous and kind when someone takes into other consideration someone else’s feelings.

For those who commented that they consider this language to be terrible and that “they” never use it actually used it in full-swing on this blog….so they must be seriously clueless as to what is usage of the language is or is not.

By the way, the word D*** in its true form would not be considered profanity as it was commonly referred to “damnation” which means to condemn or judge something or someone…same goes for someone who is “damned (condemned)” to some form of punishment such as a jail sentence. If you look at the word in the dictionary, you will find that when the word is used flippantly without meaning to say condemned or judged in its truest sense of the word is considered profanity.

I believe the excuse that it is not considered profanity is because it is used so commonly and with things that are used commonly…the sensitivity to those words goes away with time. The same will happen with the words or word that are considered the worst of the worst, which will in time not be considered profanity by some because it is in such common usage. I wish it was not so, but it is true.

If it is offensive to some people, then why use it around them? Same applies to the N**** word? You can argue all you want about racial issues, but it depends who you are talking to and whether it is offensive to them. If it is, you ought to be considerate and not use the words.

I’d be proud if my kids would actually do research into the direction of the bf-programming language, since that does imply they did reach a certain level of geekhood.

I guess that kids rather seach google for obscenities than using synaptic for it

All that being said, I don’t advocate usage of these words. But your post is an example of how things can be acceptable if we know the background, yet the same things can be unacceptable if we do not know the background.

Agreed: Obscenities should have nothing to do in desctiptions and the like.

“I’m going to fucking kill Google”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/chair_chucking

Haha, besides, “Damn” isn’t profanity!

Alan

Give us a break and find something worthwhile to write about. Enough of this and people start to caricature themselves as meddling busy bodies. Don’t like it? Don’t use it.

BTW, I don’t swear and find it as offensive as the next person, but I don’t expect that they will stop just because my delicate ears don’t like it. The solution is to teach mutual respect and tolerance and unfortunately the people most offended by bad language are the most intolerant of others and least respecting of differences. In short, they have nothing to teach. They have a plank in their proverbial eyes. They don’t like it because they don’t do it, but they close their eyes to their own faults.

And Damn Small Linux, come on. Small Linux is silly name, DSL is memorable.