A Plea, From One

[Rickertsen2]

IMHO I should not have to become an unanimated dolt and leave my personality behind jsut to post here.

[KenWittlief]

Im sorry, I dont understand the complaint at all?!

you read something on CD that you didnt understand, and you had to stop and think about it, or ask someone what it meant

you mean you were in danger of learning something new? and thats bad why?!

FIRST has a language of its own - who else would know the alphabet soup here to know what CD KOP RC OI....stand for

and if someone is not interested in the stuff we are talking about, why are they reading this forum?

on a public forum there is a line we walk between talking like we are carrying on a informal conversation in public, and writing a formal document worthy of becoming an IEEE white paper - most people keep it in between.

[Gadget470]

There is a difference between a useful word, phrase, acronym, etc. and nonsensical subculture slang.

If you went to some other board about puppies and said:

Yeah, we got our FIRST KOP and there is a new OI for our RC bot. I'm gonna post on CD about it!

They would probably delete the post.

It's not appropriate for the forum. I have nothing against learning something that I can use productively.

That is all.

[KenWittlief]

nonsensical subculture slang?!

you mean its ok for students to learn about our subculture, science and engineering

but we should not be forced to learn about theirs?

one of the greatest achievements of FIRST is that its a common bond between people from many different places and subcultures - I deeply feel it would be a mistake to scorn someone for sharing their manner of speaking, their sense of humor, or their pecular way of expressing themselves, only because you dont (yet) understand it.

I agree it can be frustrating - The company I use to work with was entrenched with a alphabet soup of acronyms - you could not talk to anyone, or read any documents without missing at least some of what was going on because every phrase or name that had more that 3 sylables was replaced with an acronym - it drove me crazy (and Im still crazy to this very day)

but here, Im not here to drive on a one way street - I think I learn more from the students I work with than they learn from me - cause they got me outnumbered by at least 10 to 1 :c)

[Tytus Gerrish]

im reeminded of all the names for the CIM motor

chippowA!
Che-a-Fu-A
chip
Sims
Chims
chips
chalupa
chupagapa
Cim
Chiapowa
And Prety much anything else you can think of we all know it means the same thing (The Big black one)

[Mike Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Gadget470

As for Aignam's reply's.. I entrust myself to www.Dictionary.com for my word choice. Because a word has a definition, does not make it appropriate for use in discussion. Words that are fully accepted by all cultures which are represented on these boards (such as "cool", "sweet" and "rocks") are read in such a fashion that they do not break up the sentance.

okay i am confused by a few things myself, first off, my english teachers always told me never to rely on a webpage, so i am gonna have to agree to Aignam, second, i believe that FIRST is a bunch of unique people, and what one person finds normal is weird to others. so "Bling bling" and the such are coinsidered normal to some and not to others

and while we are on the subject of being all prim and proper, then i would like to say that everyone using the word first to refer to the program can all be confusing.

first: (taken from dictionary.com) first (fûrst)
n.The ordinal number matching the number one in a series.

There are more definitions to the word here: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=first

no where on the page does it say that first is a robotics program started by Dean Kamen in New Hampshire

so people should Call F.I.R.S.T. just that F.I.R.S.T. or call it For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology because we wouldnt want anyone to get confused this just makes things more prim and proper

by the way (because using the term BTW would not be prim and proper) I cannot spell. I have the written ability of a snail ( that is if a snail could write i have never seen any snails on the New York Times Best Sellers List) if anyone has a problem with that i would prefer if they contacted me in private instead of continuing a discussion that has already be discussed on these boards to death

[Tytus Gerrish]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

as a side note .. i did try to install a spell checker.

vb3 is nuts though. it wasn't a quick job, and i didn't have much time to do it.

PLease!!! im Suffering Brandon I need it So badely Im Even Getting Bad reps For it. DID you see how i spelled skrimmages? I realy do try

As for bling... to me it sounds like the sound a cartoon or sitcom makes when sombody's teeth or jewlery or eyes make that bright sparkle as far as why a reflecton would make a sound I have No Idea. Ive used it a few times and its kinda pointless because it Physcally Makes no sense

ya Who needs Slang? use it in reality not in forums that are archived and then you look back on it years later and then your like: "WOWH! was i a dumb kid back then or what?"

[Katie Reynolds]

Ok ...

So if someone is posting...

"idk whut u r talking about. whut do u thnk i shuld do? y dont u answer me?????? ima total h4x0r!!!!!!"

... all the time, I can see why one would be upset over the spelling/grammer/word usage on these forii. True, some people write "u" instead of "you", occasionally you'll see "idk" instead of "I don't know", but generally any words or acronyms used here are pretty general things that most internet users know. As far as TTS (er ... totally terrible spellers) there aren't too many here. I'm sure if you have a problem with what they are posting, they will be more than happy to have you edit their posts for them.

On second thought, why is this even being discussed - especially now?? Don't you all have robots to build or something?