>>21 This is not linguistic mutation through learning and natural processes in usage, it's social differentiation by low-level outsides who arrived yesterday and have never even read SICP, prayed for Satori or dreamed of black snakes. It IS elitist, but it's more than that: it's a reaction from a community that won't let itself be assimilated by the /g/ENTOO illiterates we have always so despised.