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[guitarist]

LeSellers, on 24 February 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:

It depends on whether writer was a native English speaker. I have a lot more sympathy for English-language learners (and French- or Italian-language learners) than for natives who simply cannot (or refuse to) use something approaching standard English/French/Italian.

I have no patience at all for "Ebonics", for example. It's fine for people to use some sort of patois or "family language" for internal communication, but it just doesn't work for people outside the community.

Even in the most extreme situation, however, I still have to be able to understand the message. Your example seems to have had no message: the signal-to-noise ratio approached 0.

Lehi

The response by Max of course was making fun of Ben's unintelligible status.  I find such responses to be hilarious, especially when read aloud because it intentionally had a signal-to-noise ratio of near 0.  My apologies if you did not share my humor.

[Pa Pa]

guitarist, on 24 February 2012 - 12:53 PM, said:

The response by Max of course was making fun of Ben's unintelligible status.  I find such responses to be hilarious, especially when read aloud because it intentionally had a signal-to-noise ratio of near 0.  My apologies if you did not share my humor.

I fear he has none...Sorry LeSellers.

[Nathair]

I find recursive acronyms, where the acronym is also one of the words forming the acronym, entertaining.  A lame example, but the best I can come up with off the top of my head is: MISC = MISC Is Super Cool.