OT -- Re: random cover of a range

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bill Baxter" <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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

The newer comics Non-Sequitor (the old guy telling stories in the bar) and 
Pearls Before Swine (the crocs) do that a lot too. But they're so funny I 
find it worth the effort. It gives certain characters a particular accent 
that kind of emulates good comedic voice-acting and really makes the whole 
thing just that much funnier.