TDPL a bad idea?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Feb 2 17:06:28 PST 2010


Yigal Chripun wrote:
> As I said before, you must be a much more tolerant person than I am :)

I have long experience with online flame wars. The only way to "win" at 
them is to not play.


> What bothered me the most about his language was not the fact the it was 
> insulting but rather that it reduces the readability which is even more 
> so for non native speakers (which I am).
> I mean, it isn't that hard to using the correct spelling (even in curse 
> words) so that others can understand you. using bad spelling 
> intentionally like that is plain inconsiderate.

I agree that using obscure idioms or creative spelling can make life 
hell for non-native speakers. Most posters' english is so darn good it's 
easy to forget english may be their second language.


 > This especially irks me every time I see a post that boils down to
 > demeaning a non-native English speaker about using "your" instead of
 > "you're" or nit-picking on tiny differences of a meaning of a word.

Since "your" and "you are" are quite distinct, it is fair to criticize 
misuse of it, if you're going to be a grammar nazi anyway. It's less 
fair to criticize misuse of "who" and "whom".

I've lived in foreign countries, and spent enough time overseas to be 
very tolerant of non-native english, especially because I need plenty of 
forgiveness for my mangling of their tongues.



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