Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 12, 2021 8:09 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
Parent article: Code humor and inclusiveness

My granddad once complained to me about the quality of language in newspapers these days, eg, an article that said something was becoming "curiouser and curiouser". I had to explain that was a quote from Alice in Wonderland. But in an international context, one must accept that misspellings have limited scope for humour.

I have come across "borken" but it's more commonly "borked"; as for "histerical raisins", ESR's jargon file spells it "hysterical" (a play on "historical reasons", which I didn't know), and I don't see the humour in the additional misspelling of "histerical".

In short: most of this "humour" is lame anyway. There's no harm in fixing it!

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 12, 2021 8:27 UTC (Sat) by jafd (subscriber, #129642) [Link] (4 responses)

Fortunately, yours is just one opinion.

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 12, 2021 9:27 UTC (Sat) by MickeyDance (guest, #112575) [Link] (1 responses)

I suggest we create a focus group for the removal of Lame And Useless, Gratuitous Humour

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 15, 2021 0:03 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

Cancel Humour Using Colloquial Knowledge or Lame Expression.

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 12, 2021 9:28 UTC (Sat) by pwfxq (subscriber, #84695) [Link] (1 responses)

And so is yours.

Neither of you is "right" or "wrong". You both just have different opinions on the subject.

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 13, 2021 8:11 UTC (Sun) by diegor (subscriber, #1967) [Link]

I agree, and I also think that removing humor for being lame, it's not a good reason, because someone had to judge if someone else humour is lame or not, but there is no objective rules for lameness in humour. Some jokes resonate with some reader and not with someone else, but this is not a reason per se to avoid it.

I suspect that humour is like beauty, it is in the eye of the beholder.

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 12, 2021 10:47 UTC (Sat) by Deleted user 129183 (guest, #129183) [Link] (2 responses)

> In short: most of this "humour" is lame anyway. There's no harm in fixing it!

Basically this. Most of the “hacker humour” is _painfully_ unfunny, and that includes all of examples in the article. It was maybe funny back in the 80s, but in 2021? It’s just cringy.

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 12, 2021 12:11 UTC (Sat) by ju3Ceemi (subscriber, #102464) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah ?

You should read "The Little Prince", from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 14, 2021 6:44 UTC (Mon) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

And then run "aptitude moo" and add a "-v" at every iteration.

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 15, 2021 15:52 UTC (Tue) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link]

For many applications all you would need is an additional "translation" that can replace the message as needed.

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 15, 2021 16:00 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> and I don't see the humour in the additional misspelling of "histerical"

Because actually histerical is closer to the "correct" "historical". It's only one letter wrong, not two.

Cheers,
Wol