OT -- Re: random cover of a range

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> "Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:gncqss$2hto$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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
>
> I'm a native English speaker, and even *I* find it very difficult to read
> that kind of writing. It's bad enough that I usually just don't even bother
> to try to read it and just move on to the next post/web-page/etc. There's
> plenty of things out there written with *good* language that it's just not
> worthwhile to waste time on the poorly-written stuff. Therefore, I see bad
> language like that as an effective way to make people not even listen to
> you.

That reminds me of this comic Snuffy Smith that was in the funny pages
of the newspapers where I grew up.  When I was in grade school I liked
to read the comics, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what
the heck they were saying in Snuffy Smith.  It's all written like
"Gee, G'paw, I shurely'd be likin' ter gwan git sum, but I rekin it
ain't all done yit."  But it's been around for a long time.  So I
guess some people like to read obfuscated English.  Then of course
there's James Joyce and William Faulkner who made whole literary
movements out of writing stuff that was impossible to read.  :-)

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Google_and_Snuffy_Smith