A Plea, From One

[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)