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To: ~digs who wrote (100)	9/5/2006 3:22:26 PM
From: jttmab	of 149

Pooh-Poohing the Purists, a Scholar Revels in Netspeak We'll see. I have heard young people speak the word "prolly", so I'm not as confident that they know the difference between net speak and a more formal communication such as one might have in a job interview. "There are so many purists out there," he said. "They think language should be used by a fixed set of rules — always their rules." "If I leave out the punctuation in an e-mail, you don't say, `Crystal doesn't know his grammar.' You say, `Crystal's in a hurry.' Why would I say that Crystal is in a hurry? I might very well conclude that Crystal doesn't know the QWERTY keyboard very well. I might well conclude that Crystal is just careless. An absence of punctuation can create ambiguity. Was that a question or a statement? I hear complaints that people can't make change without a cash register telling them what the proper change is. Are the complainers "purists" in mathematics? I supppose one day, we'll accept as the norm that a person can't make change and be impressed when they can. jttmab

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