Originally posted by Teko "no internet speak" on this forum?
mn... This forum is actually ON internet~
Also English is my second language, I wouldn't want to surf in a forum and feels like writing an assignment to a professor.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the original posting was meant to refer to the use SMS style abbreviations and specialist acronyms. The posting did refer to them as 'internet speak' but that was corrected in a later post.
In my post I appealed to posters to use simple standard English so that non native speakers would find it
easier to take part.
Somehow some folk with some kind of inferiority complex seem to have interpreted it as a personal slur.
As someone who has often taken the part of mentor to immigrants from various countries, assisted people with learning difficulties, and had to learn another language as a matter of neccessity in a foreign country, I do understand the need for
simplicity and standardisation: It helps to prevent confusion.
Remember the acromym
KISS -
Keep
It
Simple and
Straightforward
It is said that Australians are the most well balanced people in the world, - they have chips on both shoulders!