[Cialug] SysAdmin FYI

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> It's not so much about age as how this guy acts... or at least how he writes.

Except the difference you’re citing are directly correlated with age — as you note, the language in question came into existence as part of a certain computer-related culture that you are slightly too old to be a part of. These people, simply be being alive at the right time and interested in computer security, would have been widely exposed to script-kiddie (which is itself a dismissive, agist description of behavior not particularly related to age), and they may even have been script-kiddies when they were younger. Why does that mean they are unqualified today?

Have you never heard your grandmother (or a similarly aged person) lament that people today don’t write by hand, or that they use language in ways she finds unbecoming? Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing here — applying cultural judgements across cultures?

	Zach

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