OT: Language Abuse

[Robert Bushman]

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Derek Neighbors wrote:

> > Re: Derek:
> > The point is to communicate, which requires coding effort by the
> > transmitter and decoding effort by the receiver. My objective is not
> > linguistic in nature, so attempts to assault each word individually
> > will be quite successful. IMO, it is both more interesting and more
> > rewarding to make the effort to understand, rather than spending all
> > your effort criticizing.
>
> My point was not to criticize directly but rather help you communicate
> more effectively.  The clearer one can be in communicating information
> the more effective they become.

My intent was not to communicate only with those
who speak Stallmanese - it was to communicate with
the general public.