Messages in this thread | | | From | David Chappell <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:45:32 -0400 |
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On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Kelley Spoon wrote:
> Someone else brought up the point about censoring work other people > contributed, and I agree with that. I have absolutely no problem > with a developer calling a spade a spade.
It should be pointed out that they aren't calling spades spades. No copulating, voiding of excrement, or condemnation to an afterlife of torture actually occur in the Linux kernel. ;)
Also, many of these words (such as hell and damn) are expletives, meaning that they do not contribute anything to the sense of the sentence, except perhaps to express the author's annoyance.
I would suggest that looking for obcenities in kernel messages would be a good way to find poorly written messages which should be made more explicit and helpful.
The reason this kind of language is still seen as unprofessional in at least some quarters is that it is more common amoung the illiterate and because it introduces topics with distictly unpleasant aspects into a context in which they are entirely irrelevant.
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