"Daniel C." <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Levi Pearson<[email protected]> wrote:
>> You know where you can take your linguistic elitism.  Jargon and silly
>> language manipulation have been a part of culture for as long as
>> language has existed, and it's certainly a big part of 'hacker'
>> culture.  Your pretension is the issue here, not ignorance.
>
> There is a difference between wordplay and a mistake.  One should be
> appreciated; the other corrected.

Yes, but the post I responded to was complaining about nonstandard usage
of the word 'fail'.  It was quite the epic fail.

                --Levi

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