Confusion on what is and what is not a "text speak garbage"
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It would be a pity if an OP was too afraid to ask for clarification of terms/acronyms they don't understand. That kind of fear will likely keep them from every being good at what they do. Sure there is the occasional troll that will attack a newbie as if the troll was born knowing everything but for the most part those of us that respond do so because we want to help so a request for clarification usually works. (The occasions where it doesn't work are often when a newbie has been told the same thing at least twice and was asked for more information but instead chooses to ignore posts and ask something completely new.)
Something here you mentioned, "there is the occasional troll that will attack a newbie as if the troll was born knowing everything" This is more of a problem I think. Trolls or wanna be's who scream and shout to make themselves feel good and give themselves the illusion of knowing all things, is no help at all. It makes it so constructive criticism can be taken the wrong way when someone tries to help another understand the importance of communicating, so what they type can be better understood.
Last edited by Amdx2_x64; 07-07-2011 at 10:58 AM.
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It would be a pity if an OP was too afraid to ask for clarification of terms/acronyms they don't understand.
IMHO, you are right when it comes technical abbreviations or things like IMHO, AFAIK, IIRC, ... (which also could be easily looked up on a web-search). But when a member has to ask for clarification because of text-speak he also might think that his English is just not good enough at all to understand the post and leave. Keep in mind that it is much more difficult to understand text-speak for people with a rather poor English than for native speakers or people who speak English well. Also keep in mind that posts full of text-speak may put off people (which are not members here) that come to LQ because they searched a solution on the web (LQ has an astonishing hit-rate when it comes up to Linux problems). If they see that they can't understand the post because they don't even recognize it as English (OK, exaggerated) it would be a shame in my opinion.
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