Paddy said:
I too know your wrong Aahz. The written word is not the same as that
spoken. People should make an effort to put across their meaning in a
clear manner. If I were going to an interview I would be very careful
about swearing and most likely not do it. People complain about the
friendliness and tone of groups, and mention it when talking about
programming languages.
Not everyone swears like Eddy Murphy in Beverley Hills Cop, and a lot
of those that do, would not do so when they want to impress, or
communicate with a stranger.
The tone of comp.lang.python *is* an asset, I think, to Python that
swearing will diminish.
You are comparing interviews to usenet. I somehow see a disconnect. I
don't think many people are going to go to a potential employer and say
"hey **** face, how the **** are ya?" Yea, its not likely to happen, in
most cases people might even dress up to an interview and use all of
their professionalisms as to not appear as they would at home. However
communicating with people (cause that's what this is, its just people
talking to one another about Python and the health of this forum) should
be done as people see fit. Although you mentioned impressing people
etc, is it really important to impress people here by watching your P's
and Q's? What impresses me here is someone's command of the language, I
could really give a rats ass how they choose to disseminate their
expertise.
As its been mentioned before, its one thing for me or anyone else to get
in someone's face and be like "listen you little ****, use a while
loop." But that was clearly not the context. Using an expletive as an
adjective does not diminish the "friendless" of the group unless you are
complete prude. Granted, there are tons of them, I think that the real
issue is that people need to learn to ignore things they don't like and
not be so *damn* sensitive. Meaning is clearly conveyed, people's
sensitivity is their own issue and I think too many people have gotten
way to used to the political correctness shoved down our throats by
society. Again, that's just my take on it, but those of you who would
be offended by my statements and use of colorful language to describe my
love of technology should probably just adjust your spam filters to scan
for my name or emails that use words you can't handle. Its kind of like
not watching tv shows that bother as opposed to raising a stink and
having them taken off the air.
Hopefully now the count is more like 124.
/rant
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