Dear Users of Technical Forums on the Internet,

I am fully aware that the average engineer does not have the best grasp on the English language, even if it is their first language.  We were all more concerned with math and science classes and dicking with our computer than we were in taking creative writing courses and such.  I will even admit that I am not a top notch writer myself, as I am myself a programmer with an engineering job title.

All that aside, I think "engineers can't write LOL" is a poor fucking excuse for the atrocities I am running into whenever I try to find information on various technical forums.  I don't mind a few spelling or grammar errors here and there[0].  Everyone makes mistakes.  No, this is the utter pile of shit that is the language used in AIM/text messaging, and other horrendous bullshit that makes it so hard to find information that pouring through the fucking code makes more sense than the prose explaining it.  I am tired of otherwise intelligent people writing like they are giggly 13 year old girls.

For the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bob J.R. Dobbs, the Chaos Monkey who shit the world into his hand, religious and philosophical figures from all major religions past and present, literary deities from fantasy and comics, deities who may or may not exist and are unprovable, the faith that comes with lack of faith, and even motherfucking Xenu. . .

<b>Stop it!  Just. Fucking. Stop.  If you're discussing in a technical forum, with the idea of helping others learn and share information, make that information actually readable, or get the fuck out!</b>

I have come to accept bullshit text messaging language, repeated unintelligible spelling, and other grammatical skullfuckery as an "acceptable" part of Internet forums some time ago.  I really don't care what the kids at Fark, Something Awful, 4chan, etc. are doing.  Hell, I've even come to accept that this sort of thing is normal at places like Slashdot, Digg, etc. where you'd hope for better.  But in technical  exchange forums, it is just ridiculous[1]. 

I want to read about how to handle something in Java, not how you're "loosing" data in "ur app cuz u r uzing" the wrong method.

In closing,
Clean it up, or get the hell out.

~EEE~


[0]  That said, I'm mostly cruising Java forums these days, and anyone posting there in the past couple years is most likely using Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, or some other browser that likely includes a spell check.

[1] Hey look!  There's not a fucking "e" anywhere in that word.  That's another rant, however, for another day.