"“There is very much good on the Internet, this is practically common sense,” she said.  “But there are things that have a destructive effect on the younger generation.  A child can’t distinguish between what is grammatically correct and incorrect.  What do we do?  Tear off the hands of those who use slang?  Or rip out tongues?  Of course not.  The problem can only be solved with education.  For instance, we are proposing a whole series of efforts to raise literacy.  First of all, we need to forbid anonymity on the Net: reduce the amount of sites where people act using nicknames [usernames] instead of their real names.  And when users will stop hiding behind masks, their treatment of the written word will improve, because everyone knows that making mistakes is improper.”" - winckel from Bookmarklet

Governments the world over have silly ideas about the web :( - winckel

@cevik, no, exactly in wrong spelling and pronunciation -- prEveD http://voffka.com.nyud.net/archive... :-) - @йриш и его демоны

OK - it's official, I've made it: Leo Laporte liked the post :-)))) - winckel

Congrats! I'm joining Leo, too ;-) - Andrey Smirnov

wawoo %) - @йриш и его демоны

why you didn't bring original picture? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - A.T.

Ok, first solve online anonymity problem, then go for the LOLspeak banning. - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

I cannot see why anonymity is that much of a problem when it comes to grammar. I know plenty of places online where people use nicknames yet they make an effort to write correct english! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)