OT -- Re: random cover of a range

[Ary Borenszweig]

Yigal Chripun a écrit :
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "superdan" <super at dan.org> wrote in message
>>> news:gnc2ml$14ch$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> if u dun shitfuck there u r dead meat. pardon me french.
>>>> don & walt u r 2 cool fer school. thanks doods. tho wut's with tat
>>>> apple thing.
>>>
>>> I don't usually mind profanity, so for me the big problem is more
>>> often the high overhead involved in translating things like this into
>>> real words and sentences. ;-)
>>
>> One interesting aspect of writing posts like that is you can use it to
>> defeat snooping programs that look for certain keywords and phrases. It
>> also makes it far more difficult for non-native language speakers to
>> understand it, if that is one's intention.
> 
> Being a non-native English speaker, I *HATE* that kind of writing since 
> it's very hard for me to understand it. When posting to a forum such as 
> this, the considerate thing to do is try to make yourself understandable 
> to others. This is the Internet with people from all over the world, not 
> "the hood".
> I also really do not appreciate any use of other-languages like Latin 
> just to make yourself look smart. for instance, I can reply using 
> Aramaic phrases, but I doubt it that most people will understand it 
> here. Unless Walter is going to have newsgroups by language/culture/..
> we all need to be considerate to others by trying to write such that 
> it'll be clear to everyone and also try not to forget running the spell 
> checker.
> 
> I think native speakers sometimes do not appreciate how difficult it can 
> be for others to understand them. It's the same way with right-handed 
> people that can't understand why ordinary objects like scissors can be 
> incredibly frustrating to a left-handed person (like myself).

vote++; // :-)

I hate when people use acroynms everywhere. It seems a new one is 
invented each day! I mean, how many time can you save there? What's the 
hurry?