On Aug 29, 11:09 am, "sjpiii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean use correct spelling and grammar? But what about all the time > we've spent creating cutesy little non-words like "l8er?" > > Actually, I'm less tolerant of those than of normal spelling and grammar > errors because of the number of posters here for whom english is not their > native language.
What I find worst of all, however, are people for whom English is not their first language, *and* they write in lazy, slangy AOL-speak. Making mistakes is fine, and even being completely incomprehensible is bearable if it looks like an effort was made to use the language correctly. I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm learning a new language, spoken or programming, I try my best to use it is correctly as possible given my level of experience with it. Using slang and shorthand correctly really requires you to know what you're doing--sort of like optimizing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list