Re: [SLUG] OT: Nerds and geeks

[Heracles <renee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean Hamstead wrote:

> > Geeks take pride in their use of the language and syntax and
> > so on.   Don't forget Larry Wall is a Linguist more than he is a
> > Programmer.   A true geek will be almost anally retentive about the
> > correct use of language.   Where do you think net.cops come from?
>
> Yeah! Were are your english?
>
> > Poor spelling or linguistic habits are more often the sign of someone
> > who skipped class too often or had a particularly bad teacher or
> > wasn't focused on the appropriate lesson and was instead reading
> > Necromancer or playing with their C64 when they should've been
> > reading Herman Melville or something.....

Actually, in the English language there is no specific body that dictates
how anything is either said or written. Therefore we tend to take the
Oxford English Dictionary as the defacto authority. If we do accept this
"authority" then we must accept that  the Macquarie Dictionary is wrong in
many instances as it accepts the Webster spelling as an alternative. Until
we either accept the rules set down for us by England and its Oxford
English Dictionary or create our own authority, we cannot truly be wrong
no matter how we write/say or spell anything. {;-)

Stay well and happy
Heracles