DeMoN LaG wrote: > JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:3C47A59D.2D5A74D5 > @hgdjaggd.com, on 17 Jan 2002: > > >>Still, seems like a lot of work to go through just to get the t's >>dotted, i's crossed, or o's slashed in somebody's surname in casual >>internet correspondence. >> > > Seems like common courteousy to me.
Were it easy, I agree. It isn't. I wish it were. > I would think you'd find it > offending if someone started calling you JOK because it was too hard to > type a T instead of a O so they just made it easier. No, I'd find that bizarre and indicative of a cognitive problem. Here's the analogy you intended: Now if somebody in some foreign country only had "Js with a circle above them" or some crazy thing, and they addressed me as "J-with-a-circleTK", so what? Tell me why I would care. > If you can't/don't > want to copy paste the name, and you don't know (as most don't and > shouldn't) how to type � on a US english keyboard, just say Jonas. When the situation arises, I will, like I said a dozen posts ago. > If > the average person's keyboard didn't have a lowercase 'a', I'd rather > someone call me demon instead of Mr. Log > But "Mr. LAG" would get you all bent out of joint? Come on. You didn't even spell it right *yourself*: It's "LaG", or "LaGgy" for short.
