500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word” (2020)

In Australia a lot of people swear like a sailor in their work setting (and, just in general really). This put me off a bit initally. Since in school you'd never swear around figures of authority (because you'd simply get in trouble for it). So having to transition to a workplace where everyone is saying "fuck this and fuck that" infeont of colleagues and higher ups was a bit odd.

But I'd never swear in a job interview (although I believe I have before), I'd also never swear when meeting someone new - I try to gauge first if they're as much of a potty mouth as me, then I go for it.

As for

> What are they trying to signal with that?

I don't think they're "signaling" anything intentionally. I think they must just believe it to be unprofessional or disrespectful. And in my opinion that's perfectly fine. In fact I sometimes wish I could get my points and frustration across without swearing - in _my_ opinion it tells me you hace better self control, and a certain professionalism. But I don't think you'd agree with me on that :)

> The use of obscene or taboo language - or swearing, as it’s more commonly known - is often seen as a sign that the speaker lacks vocabulary, cannot express themselves in a less offensive way, or even lacks intelligence.

> Studies have shown, however, that swearing may in fact display a more, rather than less, intelligent use of language.

My son does not like the word cheese because it triggers disgust (he really does hate cheese, which is sad for a French but anyway). So ch**e it is.

During my break I received a message asking if they sent the SQL to me would I change it to remove the vowels.

As this was a fairly easy change I agreed and did it for them. When I then got back to the office I asked why they had asked for the change. Turns out if you generate a million random string you will end up with most rude words coming out. They referred to it as the random fuck generator.