On Monday 23 Sep 2002 10:40 pm, you wrote: > 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.
To say nothing of those whose first language is not English Anne
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