Including the previous message/Digest choices
Rodger Whitlock (Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:56:35 PST)
On 31 Jan 2012, at 1:24, steven hart wrote:
Hey Max, Ive seen this here before & never known what <SNIP> means, can u
fill me in on this one, it always has that look like someone is being rude, am i
right ? : )
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, David Nicholson <d.avensis@virgin.net>wrote:
Max Withers wrote:-
<SNIP>.....I must say that the I find the inability of some of our new
members to use google or spell............<SNIP>
Into the breach!
<snip> is merely a way to indicate that text has been elided. No pejorative
value at all. I prefer to just use diaeresis ... instead. If I'm responding
point by point, then I put each response after a snippet of text, just enough
to give context, and don't bother indicating elision.
Very early in my online career, I used <snip> a lot, but abandoned the use
after a short while. I suppose it's still useful once in a while, but I can't
remember when I last used it.
Incidentally, in my previous message I wrote
Anybody whining that they don't understand is just being lazy!
On reading over what I wrote, I realized that it sounds like I was criticizing
Steven Hart. That wasn't my intention and I apologize both to Steven and to all
PBS list subscribers for giving that impression. I was thinking of the real
doofuses out there whom you cross paths with sometimes - the kind of people who
don't know anything and stubbornly refuse to even try to learn anything
new because they already know everything they need to know. Not!
There's actually a formal name for something very close to that description:
"Dunning-Kruger syndrome". Wikipedia has an article iirc.
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate