I am an "elitist" because I advocate learning others' language? While you,
who refuse to,
would be what?

Language grows through neologisms of all sorts, including abbreviations,
pronounceable or not.

I'll go with Leo. If you won't learn from others, how do you fancy you know
so much?

"Mike Berger" wrote in message
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Oh, c'mon. You've learned the language if you know what a
sliding compound miter saw or boiled linseed oil are. You're
just showing off, or being elitest, when you start obscuring
things with acronyms and then tell everybody who doesn't
understand them that they aren't as well versed in the field
as you. You're just spewing alphabet soup.

George wrote:

I open those out of curiosity. How am I going to learn anything until I
learn the language?

Use to hear objections about that from the kids at school. "How come we
have to learn these big words?" pertaining to biological vocabulary was
as common a question as "Is this going to be on the test?"

Answer to both was the same - life is cumulative. Takes everything you
know to learn what you need.