On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote: > I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this > little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . > I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been > guilty of these. Maybe I'm not the only one :^)
It has value up to a point, but is too rigid and is ignorant of people with abilities different to those of the author. It reminds me of the frightful proscriptive grammar textbooks used when education was a little less enlightened. For example, "Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language" sounds wonderful until someone who is dyslexic wants to ask a question, for example; not everyone's strength is in the written form of a language, and one has to be forgiving. Alastair
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