Nothing thus far mentioned in this thread is more annoying than the complete bastardisation of the term 'hacker'.
I'm a hacker, in the truest (and original) sense of the word. Most of us using Blitz are also hackers. It was a word that, many moons ago, had no negative connotations whatsoever. Thanks to the popular press, there is now no suitable term to describe someone who likes to know how things work, other than 'tinkerer', 'geek', 'nerd' or 'weirdo'.
I will forgive popular slang, "I could care less"... who cares? The meaning of the phrase is clear.
"They're there, spelling their words wrong" - Unforgivable, if done incorrectly. Misspelling of those particular words doesn't just indicate a lack of spelling ability, it indicates a broken thought process. I still can't spell budgerigar, but I never confuse "their" with "there".
Anyone who doesn't know what an apostophe is for (or what one is, when you tell them to put one in) clearly skipped a lot of classes and ignore all professionally written media. People who ignore things are, by definition, ignorant.
I'm a hacker, in the truest (and original) sense of the word. Most of us using Blitz are also hackers. It was a word that, many moons ago, had no negative connotations whatsoever. Thanks to the popular press, there is now no suitable term to describe someone who likes to know how things work, other than 'tinkerer', 'geek', 'nerd' or 'weirdo'.
I will forgive popular slang, "I could care less"... who cares? The meaning of the phrase is clear.
"They're there, spelling their words wrong" - Unforgivable, if done incorrectly. Misspelling of those particular words doesn't just indicate a lack of spelling ability, it indicates a broken thought process. I still can't spell budgerigar, but I never confuse "their" with "there".
Anyone who doesn't know what an apostophe is for (or what one is, when you tell them to put one in) clearly skipped a lot of classes and ignore all professionally written media. People who ignore things are, by definition, ignorant.