The devolution of English language and slothful c.l.p behaviors exposed!

[Rodrick Brown]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:57:16 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
> > Here is a grep from the month of September 2011 showing the rampantly
> > egregious misuse of the following words and phrases:
> >
> > * pretty
> > * hard
> > * right
> > * used to
> > * supposed to
>
> I'm pretty sure that this news group is supposed to be for discussing the
> Python programming language. At least it used to be about Python. It is
> hard to understand why you think discussing English idioms is the right
> thing to do here.
>
>
>
Especially when most programmers these wasn't taught English as their
native language.

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