If at all something needs to get banned from this forum it's those daft smileys. If you're language skills are not adequate to show you're in a ironic mood, adding a yellow little twinky can be overseen too easily
Fair enough, but this is an international forum and I think it's unrealistic to expect all contributors to have the same standard of ability in the lingua franca: English.
I don't like these 'characters' either, but if they can help to differentiate insult from inadequacy of language, so much the better, and I'd hate to have people refrain from posting simply on grounds of language ability. The only thing I find offensive about the way some write is the
intentional lack of respect for conventions, such as the use of i where it should be I. That's just sloppy and inexcusable.
To, too and two are hardly challenges any more than there and their; it would be more pleasant were they not abused.
Other than that, I think we do very well here. I seldom come across posts I can't understand, other than from technical perspectives, of course, which happens often. The thrill of digital.
Rob C
