[famousactress]

I love swearing. I also actually agree with the OP. It's getting a little old. Some of the presentations I'm seeing really feel a little patronizing linkbait. But you know what I really can't stand? The word professional, used in this context. What does that even mean? I find it such an obnoxious term when used to suggest that the privilege of working comes at the cost of subscribing to some universal etiquette.

[neilmiddleton]

Professional = something you'd say in front of your clients / customers / potential employers etc.

[famousactress]

I respectfully disagree that you believe that's the definition. The presenter gave this talk and put it on the internet, with what I can only presume is her actual name. So I'd submit that she said things she has no problem with her clients/customers/employers seeing or hearing.

My guess is that when you use the word professional you mean things that you would say in front of your clients/customers/employers, and that's what irks me about the term.

[mikeash]

Why should that have anything to do with anything we do when not in front of them?

[hexis]

What gives you the impression that the things you do and say in public are not in front of them?

[mikeash]

If we're taking that definition, fair enough, but I don't think most of us would accept self-censorship in any public forum on the off chance that a client or customer might see it.