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The license suggests you can do as you please with the project. Feel free to rewrite it to conform to your own sensibilities.

Conversely, vulgarities drive your point across stronger (given that you aren't using them every second sentence) Compare: "the project is being late" with "the project is getting fucking late", for example.

I don't really get the self-censorship though. Either don't use vulgarities, or actually use them, not this self-bowdlerising stuff.

Stand in front of any crowd and see how uncomfortable everyone gets as you speak like that.

Vulgarities in conversation and writing show a lack of class, culture and intelligence. Often your age is showing, too, as youth seems to think it's "no big deal".

Alternatively, culture and sensitivities are changing and you're not keeping up with them.

One can. Everyone can.

It happens that words have meaning and using "vulgarities" have its place and meaning too.

You may not agree, language is a dynamic thing, but even in a technical or professional settings, these words have their use.

Being vulgar for the sake of being vulgar is childish.

You are the one saying it is for the sake of being vulgar and not to convey a necessary strong emotion.

You can choose to cut yourself from this part of your humanity. That is your choice. But don't scowl at others as childish because they have real emotions to express.

One can express strong emotion without vulgarities in every language in multiple ways.

And there are also some emotions for which vulgarities are the right choice

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

It has 33k stars and has been for for 6 years. Sounds like people don't care.

From 2010:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121932

https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs

My my, how HN sensibilities change over time. Hacker news, the place where the language police now rains supreme eh?

Some users have always complained about profanity on HN and it has always been a minority. I don't think sensibilities have changed much.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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