RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] free computer

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> I'd disagree in part. Why SHOULD people care abour proper grammar and
> syntax? Language is adaptive to culture and need. If you're 
> speaking in
> jargon you're munging English as much as any of those low 
> dialects. There
> is nothing wrong with that.

You of all people I expected to see it differently.  Its much like our
discussion over me making my own DTD for my resume.  If everyone makes up
their own dialect of XML, it needlessly hinders communication.  The same
holds true of 'local dialects'.  Jargon has two categories, one of which is
another low dialect, the other is merely "big words" that people outside of
a given profession don't often use.  I'm no fan of people who abuse "big
words", but I'm also against those who dislike "big words" because they are
big.  It is the result of these various low dialects that one can hardly
have a conversation without some unintended offense.

> If you really want someone to kill for their retarded way of 
> communicating
> kill some elite hacker dudes who type like they fell off 
> someones license
> plate. ;)

Thats just another region and another dialect.

> > I've noticed that regardless of the region, there is a low 
> dialect.  In the
> > south, its a drawl and some interesting mispronunciations, 
> in large cities,
> > its jive or 'Ebonics', in California, its surferese, and in 
> Redmond, its
> > visual basic.  The people who fall into these low dialects 
> would do so in
> > any area, so its not their upbringing that ruins them, but their
> > unwillingness to care about proper grammar and syntax.
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