Been a long long while since I posted on this list. Normally I don't due to the very low signal to noise ratio (didn't someone mention 'not one tech mail for 3 days?').
But decided to break the silence on this occasion since I saw a couple of flames that had something to do with someone not having a firm grasp of the English language, and then this Witch/Wizard situation came up, which is simply ridiculous. If this is the same person who had the language problem, then here is that persons' reason for working on language skills. Nothing to be ashamed of, my lack of command on a language, whatever it may be, is not reason enough to be defensive about it. It's more of a reason to get better at it if I need to use it to communicate. I waste a lot of time at work going over source code that makes very little sense, simply because the person who wrote it had poor language skills. Very often the intent is not derivable from what that person is saying or writing simply because he/she doesn't know enough to express himself/herself correctly. This results in that person being misunderstood, which is bad for everyone involved. So, in this context, 'Witch' is not a happy tag for a woman with wizard like skills. Avoid the whole name calling game altogether and simply say she is extremely good at what she does. Enough of a language lesson for now, hope you go on to write clear and coherent code (if that is your calling in life), and quit calling people names altogether. Regards Arup > Hi , > I am very sorry if I hurt you. But I called him/her > witch because I called > her wizard which she can not be . Also see my > previous posting the reasons > for calling him/her so. > > Again I am very sorry I do not have any intension to > start any gender war. > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
