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The lead author has demonstrated himself to be decidedly non-elitist, so FWIW ;- ) SSI has no trouble buying his statement that he just doesn't want to deal with sloppy, nuisance-forming chatspeak syndromes.
No worries here.
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As to other commentors and bloggers around baseball, having heard various POV's about Chatspeak, I'll reserve the right to my own opinion as to how much of that is 'elitism.' :- )