[wp-forums] Lazy language / Jargon
Podz
podz at tamba2.org.uk
Thu Jan 12 10:14:45 GMT 2006
Had an email this morning from someone who has been posting to the
forums for a while now. They point out - quite rightly I think - that as
an international forum, we need to stop using things like r u w. lol w/o
and other abbreviations that will make no sense to someone who is not an
english speaker or who does not use chat. (Not that we as regulars do,
but if the person asking the question uses junk language, then the
answer is wasted on the reader).
(This drives me nuts too. There is one poster who regularly abbreviates
stupidly yet presents as an intelligent person.....)
Additionally, there is the problem of people using jargon. I see this as
less of a problem as it is usually code related and jargon is a relative
term.
So how to tackle ?
P.
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