Xref: utzoo news.groups:15516 alt.kids-talk:57 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!xenitec!edhew From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.kids-talk Subject: Re: You're Not A Kid! Message-ID: <1989Dec10.170808.1508@xenitec.on.ca> Date: 10 Dec 89 17:08:08 GMT References: <1989Nov17.032939.11435@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1222@mondo.omni.com> <1989Nov26.043958.771@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <6352@hacgate.UUCP> <4389@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <4408@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <1989Dec9.054230.20193@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew) Followup-To: news.groups,alt.kids-talk Organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada Lines: 41 In article <1989Dec9.054230.20193@ddsw1.MCS.COM> benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes: >Obviously, the use of monosyllables in writing such as this, i.e. in the >company of Harvard students, is not what one would deem appropriate. Antony >and I are almost the same age, and we often write more eloquently than those >who refer to themselves as English Lit. majors. So sue us! >P.S. Either you're precocious, or you're "special". I prefer being >precocious, eh? I remember that way back in the dark ages (when we dreamed about sci-fi as opposed to living it), being precocious was the best way to get mauled by your peers in the schoolyard. I quickly learned to display a lot less than I knew. IMHO it is a *good_thing* to allow those younger posters (read: kids) with means and intelligence, access to a method (USENET is a good place), to express themselves and develop themselves as part of the larger communicating community. To deny this is to deny younger people the ability to become future capable peers. While I'm certainly not the most elderly person on the 'NET, I wish to point out that I now work *with* people who *used_to_be* kids. The good ones seem to be those who did have access to communications facilities that you and I now take for granted (except when the power goes off, the drives crash, or our software strangely becomes broken). By all means, let's aid their desire to learn and communicate! Remember that USENET has a built-in mechanism that quickly weeds out those that simply don't cut it. Remember the Flame. Those that survive are generally (_insert_exceptions_here_) worth having around. We need to provide every mechanism possible to develop individuals that can communicate as well as Mr. Feen, as opposed to <_insert_your_favorite_ net.dweeb>. The use of monosylabic text is not a pre-requisite for USENET posting (or did I miss a new guideline somewhere). I have seen newsgroups created that have a lot less merit than talk.kids . Ed. A. Hew Authorized Technical Trainer Xeni/Con Corporation work: edhew@xenicon.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}utai!lsuc!xenicon!edhew ->home: edhew@xenitec.on.ca -or- ..!{uunet!}watmath!xenitec!edhew # Justice is only relative to what you can afford to prove in court.