On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau...@gmail.com> wrote: > I feel necessity to argue against this point. > > It is a common thing to stereotype teens in this way - but, being teen > myself, I feel one should try to avoid it. It's painful to watch every time > someone claims "he can't be a teenager - his spelling/grammar is too good" > or any derivation of it, as with the inverse concept that the uneducated are > always teenagers. > > i have techers who type lke this, and I have teachers who type very > professionally. > I have peers of my age group who meticulously craft their online > conversations, n i no BFFs who dun b like that. > > How someone speaks on the internet seems to me proportional almost entirely > to their intelligence*, not to their wisdom. Sure, there is an age where > one, no matter how bright, will speak like trash, but this normally > coincides with an inability to speak well, too. Most older teenagers have as > good a grasp on language as they will ever learn, so it hardly applies to > them.
The aggressive defensiveness had me thinking intelligent *younger* teenager, actually, possibly a tween. Mostly though the idea was based on what I had seen of his website, which reminded me of some of the ambitious efforts of myself and my peers when I was around that age myself. In any case, he's claimed to be older, so with no real evidence to the contrary, I will take his word for it. > * Note that I speak not of IQ or problem-solving ability, but more of a > general social intelligence that can be seen in almost any poster on this > list. My social intelligence is pretty darn low in real life, but I like to think that I comport myself reasonably well on the net. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
