[Amps] correctness? who decides?

[John T. M. Lyles]

I am not judging a guy/girl for their use of less than perfect 
english on the AMPS at contesting.com list. As a matter of fact, we have 
foreign participants (gads, people from outside of the USA!) who 
don't have total control of the English langage, but they, too, 
participate in the technical discussion, and they don't get corrected 
by an English major or even a ham. A lot of people don't capitalize 
in their emails, and don't even complete sentences. So what? Is it 
too much to ask that if someones email to a group bothers you, just 
delete it, you don't have to enforce your own subjective guidelines 
on the whole group. Thank goodness for free speech, eh?

I suspect that the adminstrator is going to get upset by this topic 
running off from RF amplifiers, so I better QRT.

73,
John
K5PRO



>Is one of those "core values" the use of sub-standard English? 
>"Seen" instead of "saw"?
>
>The only sad thing I've seen in this discussion is the apologists 
>for people who can't be bothered to learn the basics of our language 
>and who are actually proud of their ignorance. That's beyond sad, 
>it's pathetic.
>
>How much better it would have been for Will to say "You're right, my 
>English needs some work. Thanks for pointing it out".
>
>Bill, W6WRT
>