Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Aatu Koskensilta Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: call by reference Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:04:59 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87aa33cems.fsf@uta.fi> References: <0180fbc1-4fdc-4648-ab9c-b2a3b6e132db@i18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="mkDZK8dQ1WnTK6GuXhuzxQ"; logging-data="23999"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18XvN3jU1ZcCjzsqyuJYO2u" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pYTebepcAZ0b3eJOqI7gjWtqswk= sha1:FTlUFDnaeKx6/wq7cva5TzSm6o0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:13071 "Evertjan." writes: > I don't think I want to follow your link about "snarky". It is just > like "nope", see below, a word not to be used here because of local > idiomatic implications. Come now, "snarky" is perfectly normal English and readily understandable to a competent non-native speaker. > "nope" is a clear example of a word to be avoided, because when it is no > different from "no", why use it, but for adding some extra perhaps > condescending, innuendo, that could mean "we the English natives know > better". You're imagining things. It's of course a good idea to avoid obscure local idioms, but "nope" is not in the least problematic in this respect, and certainly does not imply any native speaker superiority in ordinary usage. Your harping on this issue is merely bizarre, and if you're genuinly worried about poor hapless non-natives with their tenuous grasp on the intricacies of English, I suggest instead of these peculiar tirades you work on your sentence construction. -- Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi) "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus