Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Ten rules to becoming a Python community member. Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:48:08 +1200 Lines: 11 Message-ID: <9att2bF710U1@mid.individual.net> References: <39e8985a-a0c1-487f-8f87-4e39d120c14b@h9g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> <87cb1497-9aa2-4213-b721-055bf31e10a1@m18g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net bbNtG/eQX5IwGUko1fpy/wDdsrl6IboIPg59fVF8OAguMek7T+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:GLs0wTaZuZS2DUHG9Hmlm/IANtg= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11487 rantingrick wrote: > "Used to" and "supposed to" is the verbiage of children > and idiots. So when we reach a certain age we're meant to abandon short, concise and idomatic ways of speaking, and substitute long words and phrases to make ourselves sound adult and educated? -- Greg