In any organization involved in guerilla warfare I do not think there is any one person whose death would cause the collapse of the entire organization. That's why a war on terrorism makes no sense to me - it only encourages more voilence.
It seems people fall into two categories on this subject: those who think that having a very strong grasp of your native language is the most important thing, and those who believe the content of what is said is the most important thing. The problem with the former is that if you become obsessed with the language of others, you will subconsciously form some kind of bias for or against that person instead of reasoning logically on their argument; conversely, those who believe content is the only important thing may not get their idea across as clearly as possible.
So what is my opinion? I think they are both important - think what you are going to say, then try to communicate that idea as clearly as possible.
On another note, I was somewhat surprised to see this article on/. since I always thought of hackers as having a very good grasp of the English language. Indeed, as Eric Raymond's famous article on how to become a hacker states, "If you don't have functional English, learn it."
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In any organization involved in guerilla warfare I do not think there is any one person whose death would cause the collapse of the entire organization. That's why a war on terrorism makes no sense to me - it only encourages more voilence.
It seems people fall into two categories on this subject: those who think that having a very strong grasp of your native language is the most important thing, and those who believe the content of what is said is the most important thing. The problem with the former is that if you become obsessed with the language of others, you will subconsciously form some kind of bias for or against that person instead of reasoning logically on their argument; conversely, those who believe content is the only important thing may not get their idea across as clearly as possible.
So what is my opinion? I think they are both important - think what you are going to say, then try to communicate that idea as clearly as possible.
On another note, I was somewhat surprised to see this article on /. since I always thought of hackers as having a very good grasp of the English language. Indeed, as Eric Raymond's famous article on how to become a hacker states, "If you don't have functional English, learn it."