Help a newbie 2 Yosemite.

Tkat - Einstein had a 165 IQ and spoke to us with #s too - E=mc2 (can't do superscript with this editor). All said and done, when in Rome...? - buenos tardes _ ÇÇÇ

Did you notice I said, "Not trying to be rude"? Sure would have been nice of you to reply in kind.

This is an international forum. If you want help from everyone, you need to communicate in a language everyone understands. People for whom English is a second language often have a hard enough time reading and writing proper English. Then you toss in this kind of almost incomprehensible stuff, it doesn't make a lick of sense to them. So much for any such person, who may have had excellent ideas, helping you at all when they can't even make out what you said.

As you've noticed in some of the other comments, not every person on these forums is a 20 something who thinks everyone in the world uses texting, and therefore believes everyone can easily read your posts.

As someone who has lived in the U.S. my entire life, even I can't make out some of the nonsense in your post:

All I get is the # not what it is.

What the heck is that supposed to be? Pound, hash, number, Tic-Tac-Toe? I've read it more than a few times now, and it has no meaning.

Again, for the most help, use proper English.

You mean you understood that crap, really.

[snicker]

crap(s) = 2

c*** = 0

wonder whether the censorship widget is workin' ?

This is an international forum. If you want help from everyone, you need to communicate in a language everyone understands

As a non-native English speaker, I am somewhat of a linguistic purist and abhor any written slang or colloquialism (and that includes texting), especially in a worldwide forum - it's neither quaint nor "cute"; it is simply annoying and frustrating to others (and somewhat presumptuous on the part of the poster to assume that everyone can decipher it).

Yes, exactly.

Or less politely stated:

If a person can't be bothered to write a proper post, then I can't be bothered to try and read it.

I thought that is what I said earlier in this thread.

If someone want to be helped then they have to be at least a little cooperative and that texting crap is certainly not cooperative.

You did indeed, sir! As I did with my cliche "When in Rome, (I'll finish it now) Do as the Romans do."

Yes, essentially the same idea.

I believe this particular horse has now been thoroughly beaten. 😉