"Hines, Bill" wrote:
> </soapbox>
>
> [snip]
> Posts filled with letters substituted for words - i.e. 'u r doing this
> wrong'. I know it's anal of me but I find it annoying and hard to read.
> Cute, but how hard is it to type the whole (short!) words? It gives the list
> an AOL chatroom full of teenagers feel (no I don't hang out there, but I
> have teenagers at home!). English is my first language and I hate to see it
> mangled that badly. It also gives the poster an 'uneducated' impression.
> Anybody who codes should be fairly good at keyboarding, so this shouldn't be
> necessary.
>
While I also find such posts hard to read, I learned to appreciate how tough
English is on non-native speakers when I spent a couple of years "commuting" to
Brussels, Belgium and managing a software development project there. I was
profoundly impressed both by the effort that the developers I met there spent to
communicate with me in English, and the fact that they didn't roll on the floor
laughing at my poor attempts at French.
There are a *lot* of subscribers to this list who are not native English speakers.
Let's cut them a little slack, OK?
Craig McClanahan
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