Susie H
Well-Known Member
I've just been chatting to some friends on face book about the threads on here, about how some people think other people have been rude, at how they have responded to that perceived rudeness and I think I know what part of the problem is.
Salon Geek is a world wide site, we have geeks from many different nationalities. A couple of times I and others put up threads asking geeks not to use text speak or slang because it makes it very hard for people who's first language is not English to understand what's being written.
Some of them are amazingly great tech's who have the right temperament to teach and they just don't bother reading threads with text speak or slang in them.
Inevitably, someone would get upset and think I was having a go at their lack of education, I wasn't, trust me, with out a spell checker, you wouldn't be able to read this! I'm 'that' bad.
Well we don't see so many of those geeks, we had a really good one who came from Greece for example, who apart from being someone who I could have a good laugh with, helped lots of us sort out ratio problems.
But a lot of them are still around and it's not just language that separates us, if fact when the language is the same, the problem seems to be worse, we have Canadians, Americans, Australians, all speaking English but all applying their culture to the same language.
After a few years on here, you learn to filter out, how something sounds to you, and just read the words.
A thread on here last night, I found informative, it had me looking for an article on how to pick the best l&p for me, I didn't give it a second thought, but the original poster did, she was very upset by the way she'd been 'spoken' to by this Canadian Geek.
Sometimes it doesn't help to look at the Avatar as Geeks move around, the same as other people and tend to put where they live now, rather then where they came from.
Let me give you an example, this one is just the difference between two different parts of England.
I come from Ramsgate Kent and was married to an army guy, we lived in Germany and I met a fantastic wife called Wendy, she was my next door neighbour and came from Herefordshire. Summer ball, I'm all dressed up and knocked on Wendy's door to get her opinion on my new dress.
She opened the door and said. 'You tart' for a split second I was hurt, bewildered and felt like I'd been punched.
Ramsgate slang, a tart was a street corner, drug taking prostitute who would do it in front of her kid! Lowest of the low.
Herefordshire? You tart, meant you've done your self up like a dogs dinner and dam girl, you look hot!
I nearly hit her
Thankfully, the look on my face gave her a clue and she quickly explained what she'd meant.
So step back, breath deep and think, before you let the red mist come down in front of your eyes.
Try a bit of laughter first, reply to someone who has offended you, put their remark in a quote and say, ok, I took this to mean..............is that what you were saying? It will help the other person too, they can learn to temper the way they write a reply, others will learn that blunt is not meant to be rude, we all get a chance to grow.
We are actually more then two but the quote is still a good one.
Two great nations separated by one great language.
Salon Geek is a world wide site, we have geeks from many different nationalities. A couple of times I and others put up threads asking geeks not to use text speak or slang because it makes it very hard for people who's first language is not English to understand what's being written.
Some of them are amazingly great tech's who have the right temperament to teach and they just don't bother reading threads with text speak or slang in them.
Inevitably, someone would get upset and think I was having a go at their lack of education, I wasn't, trust me, with out a spell checker, you wouldn't be able to read this! I'm 'that' bad.
Well we don't see so many of those geeks, we had a really good one who came from Greece for example, who apart from being someone who I could have a good laugh with, helped lots of us sort out ratio problems.
But a lot of them are still around and it's not just language that separates us, if fact when the language is the same, the problem seems to be worse, we have Canadians, Americans, Australians, all speaking English but all applying their culture to the same language.
After a few years on here, you learn to filter out, how something sounds to you, and just read the words.
A thread on here last night, I found informative, it had me looking for an article on how to pick the best l&p for me, I didn't give it a second thought, but the original poster did, she was very upset by the way she'd been 'spoken' to by this Canadian Geek.
Sometimes it doesn't help to look at the Avatar as Geeks move around, the same as other people and tend to put where they live now, rather then where they came from.
Let me give you an example, this one is just the difference between two different parts of England.
I come from Ramsgate Kent and was married to an army guy, we lived in Germany and I met a fantastic wife called Wendy, she was my next door neighbour and came from Herefordshire. Summer ball, I'm all dressed up and knocked on Wendy's door to get her opinion on my new dress.
She opened the door and said. 'You tart' for a split second I was hurt, bewildered and felt like I'd been punched.
Ramsgate slang, a tart was a street corner, drug taking prostitute who would do it in front of her kid! Lowest of the low.
Herefordshire? You tart, meant you've done your self up like a dogs dinner and dam girl, you look hot!
I nearly hit her
Thankfully, the look on my face gave her a clue and she quickly explained what she'd meant. So step back, breath deep and think, before you let the red mist come down in front of your eyes.
Try a bit of laughter first, reply to someone who has offended you, put their remark in a quote and say, ok, I took this to mean..............is that what you were saying? It will help the other person too, they can learn to temper the way they write a reply, others will learn that blunt is not meant to be rude, we all get a chance to grow.
We are actually more then two but the quote is still a good one.
Two great nations separated by one great language.
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