Bob La Quey wrote:
Sorry, but you are being far too narrow minded and simply lazy. There
is great value in attempting to understand those who may well be less
literate than you are.
Anyone who writes on a blog or a web page hardly qualifies as "less
literate."
Digging out the meaning need not destroy
your own ability to be articulate unless you let it do so.
Wrong.
Simply *reading* such a sentence begins the process of realigning your
probability connections. Reading it multiple times is worse.
Suddenly I have to proofread *my own* compositions for an error that I
never made before in my life.
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."
And you wind up with the cacophony known as the web. Which completely
relies upon the fact that English carries enough redundancy to correct
when the markup blows up.
Not a good example.
RSS is another nice example of the Charlie Foxtrot that happens when you
follow that advice.
When everybody is pedantic, you get very nice interoperability.
-a
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