[wp-forums] Lazy language / Jargon

[Vicki Frei]

#5.  Good post in rebuttal, though I tend to think ignoring it/dropping the 
whole thing would have been better, simply because I'm all too aware how the PC 
folks may react.

I'm not a "lol" sort anyway, so that's not a problem for me.  As to jargon, some 
of it's inevitable and unavoidable, especially when skippy or one of the other 
major coders is posting in response to a coding question.

The chat-room crap abbreviations should be actively discouraged, I personally 
believe - but I have no idea how to accomplish that without posting something 
every time one of us sees them in use.  *shrug*  More trouble than it's worth? 
Probably.

V

On 1/12/2006 2:55:38 PM, Moshu (moshu at transycan.net) wrote:
> 1. Guilty as charged for several "lol"s...
> 
> 2. I never favoured any kind of language censorship/filter.
> (maybe because
> I've lived and worked as a journalist under _real_
> dictatorship and censorship...)
> 
> 3. Les'
> suggestion:
> "a good idea to phrase any answers in such a way
> as to restate the question"
> -seems reasonable in regard to chat-like
> abbreviations.
> 
> 4. Jargon... yes, it's very relative. And subjective, too. I don't
> think we have to do anything about it.
> (However, I consider the f!@#$ing 4-letter words not jargon - just
> awfully bad taste and style. We could warn and delete those.)
> 
> 5. The most recent event in this line is this, which can raise the
> hell of the PC (=politically correct).
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/55407?replies=12#post-305390
> Maybe it was a mistake to respond - but the linguist in me (that's my
> basic education) came out...
> 
> moshu
> 
> 
> 
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