Craig,
I agree and admire those who not only have to overcome the technical
barriers but the language one as well. However, in the messages that I refer
to, the author's command of the language is evident. They use plenty of
other big words and grammar properly, so I believe that they understand that
u=you and r=are and 'ur'=your.
If it's obvious that someone is struggling with the language, I would never
complain. But that isn't the case with the majority of these.
Anyway, like I said, it's just a nit. Let's drop it and focus on the
important stuff. We're a society here and there will be much diversity and
we all have to be tolerant. Thanks for all of your contributions here and on
the Struts list. I still think there is more than one of you, to be able to
keep up with it all :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 2:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Whats up with all these out of office replies??
"Hines, Bill" wrote:
> </soapbox>
>
> [snip]
> Posts filled with letters substituted for words - i.e. 'u r doing this
> wrong'. I know it's anal of me but I find it annoying and hard to read.
> Cute, but how hard is it to type the whole (short!) words? It gives the
list
> an AOL chatroom full of teenagers feel (no I don't hang out there, but I
> have teenagers at home!). English is my first language and I hate to see
it
> mangled that badly. It also gives the poster an 'uneducated' impression.
> Anybody who codes should be fairly good at keyboarding, so this shouldn't
be
> necessary.
While I also find such posts hard to read, I learned to appreciate how tough
English is on non-native speakers when I spent a couple of years "commuting"
to
Brussels, Belgium and managing a software development project there. I was
profoundly impressed both by the effort that the developers I met there
spent to
communicate with me in English, and the fact that they didn't roll on the
floor
laughing at my poor attempts at French.
There are a *lot* of subscribers to this list who are not native English
speakers.
Let's cut them a little slack, OK?
Craig McClanahan
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