Aaron Stromas wrote:
On 12/20/05, *Kent West* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I've known plenty of "kids"[1] who speak leet who are
[ otherwise ;-) ] very smart.
choosing to communicate in an incomprehensible way on the wide public
forum doesn't strike me as particularly smart.
Agreed; but I didn't say the practice was smart; I just suggested that
it's a bit harsh to claim that a person is not worth listening to simply
because he does something not "particularly smart", which is what the
original post about leet-speak implied. With that logic, we might
conclude that the inventor of the cure for cancer is not worth listening
to just because he likes to do his own tattoing on his own backside
(which most would deem, I suspect, as not particularly smart).
Chinook: sorry we've hijacked your thread. We're all one big, happy
family on this list, and like all families, sometimes get into
interesting side discussions. Usually they don't last too long (although
sometimes . . .), and most of the time they are fairly civil.
Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable
language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold
the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking his
input as unworthy of attention.
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Kent
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