Non-wordsWASTED BAND-WIDTH

[Nichols]

At 10:52 AM 7/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I must get this said before I die.  
>
Dave! You're kidding, right? As just ONE of the folks on the list who HAS
died recently, I'd like to believe that you truly don't have any idea how
serious it can be! <G>

>Vocabulary is very important in this world, not just to me, to everyone.  We
>all tend to take more seriously someone who says (for example) "haven't got
>any" than we do someone who says "ain't got no".

True, which is why some of us try to use a gooder vocabulary when speachin'
at customers. But.... for the "friends" and "colleagues" on this list.....
anything (vocabulary wise) goes. It's called...."comfort". At least for
some of us.

>The use of non-words like "thingee" in an otherwise technical discussion
>totally destroys the credibility of anything else the writer has to say.

Like.... totally? Really? Wow. So.... I should discard about two-thirds of
the notes from D.C., right? Too many "non-credible" terms?

>Spelling and grammar mistakes are far more acceptable 

Au contrair, señor. (howza dat for ambi-cultural?) I somehow find poor
grammar and spelling more distracting than creative languages. But, that's
just me, I'm guessin'. For the members of the quasioligotechnophilio
society the truth is in the balanced incremental flexability of the
third-generation hardware.

>than attempts to
>describe a complex part of a complex machine as a "thingee".

This, from the department of redundancy department, it just TOO complex,
for those of us WITH a complex, who are just plain..... simplex.
>
>Dave 
> 
Major-league big grins, Dave. Most entertaining thread since noon, thanks.

Guy Nichols, RPT (non-credible variety)






"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be
pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying
virtues."--Elizabeth Taylor