On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:54:24 +0200, Remo Cornali said:
> 
> > Why is swearing bad? 
> > And I don't mean insulting someone or inapropriately cussing, 
> > I mean adding colour to life.
> 
> IANAS. (I Am Not A Sociologist) 
> By common convention, I suppose. Swearing 'n cussing often border on
> vulgarity
> and blasphemy, and I don't think you would ask me why blasphemy is bad.
> OT ALARM!!

At one time, some GNU utilities would enable borken-as-designed POSIX
extensions if you had an environment variable called POSIX_ME_HARDER.
Unfortunately, at some point they went corporate and renamed the
variable to POSIXLY_CORRECT.

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