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[Richard Romeo]

cj sed:

) there's just
>something wrong about using internet talk outside the context of the
>internet. can't say what exactly...just bothers me.
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Or of any other disciplines used outside of its normal context--when done 
aesthetically, well, you've got poetry, but, as Gaddis said somewhere, the 
nature of technical language today is to exclude and befuddle. The 
internet-lingo is just the new kid on the block...

Note how much so-called hip language is a big beef burrito of slang with 
some melted technical glob--sounds good but don't mean much--cf much of 
popular culture.  There's gotta be something behind it all

rich

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