Reply To: Quality of language in YWN comments and postings

To Dr. Dovvshtein: You talkin’ to me? Are you talkin’ to me? (Yes, I am using colloquialisms, but I am also using a cinematic allusion, and so my use of a colloquialisms is appropriate.)

To mytake: My point did not come across to you, evidently. Slovenly language is ambiguous or vague. How can you be sure you have gotten your point across when you are not face-to-face with your readers? Furthermore, when discussing Torah topics, precision and clarity are not merely essential, they are a matter of respect for the topic. Admittedly, many topics on this site are not strictly Torah, but I would expect the respect for Torah to spill over to more mundane matters. And besides, we must surely recognize that there are sparks of Torah in everything we discuss, no matter how mundane.

To toi: If you cannot type, you cannot communicate on this site. And if you cannot communicate, the very least you can do is silence yourself.

To haifagirl: The following question is inquisitive, not rhetorical: Are you kidding?