> 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 > > << signature.asc >> --------------------------------------------------------- Thank you Alastair...I agree. I love this interaction that goes on here. Makes me feel like I have a whole bunch of friends out there who are a kind of "family".
Most of us have asked dumb questions, I know I sure have. If we adhered to the letter of the "rules" as outlined in the "Smart Way" to ask, this wouldn't be near as much fun. ;-) Everyone is at a different of ability, and understanding. IMHO, at least. --Angus "Live for today...but with a hope for tomorrow."--A.A. Reg. Linux User #278931 -- __________________________________________________________ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze
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