Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:13:40 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: FST777@phreaker.net, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT Humble Pie (was hardw words) Message-ID: <200303311113.40126.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <0HCJ00245JHP9E@net.WAU.NL> References: <0HCJ00245JHP9E@net.WAU.NL>
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On Saturday 29 March 2003 07:35 pm, Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek wrote: > Sometimes I even find the manuals too complicated. > Open-Source-fighters should write all their text (especially their > manuals) in understandable english for the "other part" of the > community. That's what came up in my mind while reading this. If there is jargon in the documentation, it should be removed. But reducing its verbiage to the lowest common denominator is excessive. In the US (and maybe even in other English speaking nations), there has been a movement to "dumb down" communication so that we do not offend those who might have failed the second and third grade. We even have newspapers written to that level. The sarcastic responses you have seen here are merely visceral reactions to against a perceived goal to dumb down the FreeBSD documentation to the level of "USA Today". David
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