Author: Pete Galati
Date: 13:49:10 05/23/00
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On May 23, 2000 at 15:17:13, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Not only Bruce, as it have bbeen said, but it seems to me that almost all >programmers that gather here has very good writting skills. And not only >programmers, but also non-programmer guys like -just to name those I remember on >the fly- Enrique, Jeroen, Timothy F, Dan Corbit, Dgeordge Vidanovic and surely >a lot more I do not recall right now, but that I have read once and again with a >lot of pleasure. In fact I can confess that half the reason I come here is less >to learn about programs than to learn how to write good english when non >literary issues are at stake. Almost from all of them I get a lot of fun. Post >of this people tends to be logical, sometimes witty, even elegant from time to >time. English is not my native language, as it is clear from my very fisr >sentence of even my very last post, but I have read enough english-written stuff >on history, literature and the rest -even some maths in my university times- as >to be capable of some inner hint of what is quality and what is not when I see >it. How is that and why? Maybe just because they are high IQ people with full >command of this tool of thinking that is language or, maybe, because my poor >english is rewarded by even the most elemental show of proficiency? Let me know >if I am writting this from my ignorance or from my knowledge. >Fernando You are mistaking people trying to communicate coherently, and sometimes by using faulty logic that often clouds the actual subject matter, with a high IQ. But most people here _are_ intelligent. You are. Don't _ever_ assume that someone that you are talking to here has a higher caliper of knowledge than you do. They may know a specific subject better than you do, but don't pin a badge on their chest for that. Pete
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