29 Nov
2008
29 Nov
'08
11:25 p.m.
G'day all.
Quoting "Benjamin L.Russell"
Actually, initially I had to fight the urge not to rewrite it in a less elitist manner, in order to avoid the possibility of offending the original author.
It was me, and I'm not offended. By putting words on a Wiki, rather than, say, a personal blog, I feel that I'm explicitly inviting others to be bold and modify them.
I could have risked going against the cultural attitude of the original author, who had deliberately used the pejorative term "stupid question."
Actually, the reason why I used that term is simpler than that: I'd just read the "smart questions" FAQ, and my brain was pre-conditioned in that direction. Go ahead and change it. Cheers, Andrew Bromage