Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read)

2010-07-18 Thread Hayden Presley
udyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:24 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) H, sinse when is wanting readable messages acquainted with natziism? I'm a trifle confused. As tom said, this is simpl

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2010-07-18 Thread John Snowling
- From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Muhammed, Um…Is this some kind of joke? That’s bad. Very bad. Lol! On 7/17/10, Muhammed Deniz wrote: Well, my pu

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2010-07-18 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yes, Internet short hand has been around for awhile, but I believe that cell phone texting has added a whole new level to text short hand and it has bled over to Email. BTW AT&T Crystal pronounces allot of the Internet short hand acronyms such as LOL BTW IMHO etc. That is one reas

Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read)

2010-07-18 Thread dark
e compared to the point Thomas is making. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Angela Lerma" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) I didn't know Hitler

Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read)

2010-07-18 Thread Muhammed Deniz
lango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hello Angela, I’m very sorry to hear you feel that way about it, but the fa

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2010-07-18 Thread Muhammed Deniz
o.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Angela Lerma" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) I didn't know Hitler had been re-bo

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2010-07-17 Thread Hayden Presley
-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:12 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Another way to think of it is that constructive criticism should never bother a

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2010-07-17 Thread Bryan Peterson
ts who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Charles, Exactly my point. I’m not asking people to proofread messages because I am a

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Exactly my point. I’m not asking people to proofread messages because I am a Nazi and am having some power trip or something like that. It is merely some constructive criticism aimed at the goal of improving the lists posts, and ultimately the appearance of the poster to blind and sight

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2010-07-17 Thread Andy
Hi, I have a solution that I use all the time in all kinds of apps. It's called TinySpel and it spell checks words you type, on the fly, as long as you set it to watch that particular app. Any incorrectly spelled word, it beeps and you can bring up suggestions. Of course my email client spell

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2010-07-17 Thread Charles Rivard
! - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hello Angela, I’m very sorry to hear you feel that way about it, but the fact of the matter is

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Good point. Let’s please get back to gaming now. We have said all that needs to be said on this subject I think. Smile. On 7/17/10, Mauricio Almeida wrote: > and how is this topic even game related? > are we going to openly discuss the obvious fact that people fail at > representing themse

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello Angela, I’m very sorry to hear you feel that way about it, but the fact of the matter is there is very little excuse why someone cannot do a little proofreading and run a free spell checker to try and make a few spelling corrections once and a while. Keep in mind here we aren’t asking you or

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2010-07-17 Thread shaun everiss
Well thats an interesting thing you bring up with language. I have to constantly remind my friends and relations about not using shorthand that is not based on the net dictionary or whatever on cellphones. While I can understand, lol rofl and such. plsd for pleased comes out as plsd thats not ba

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2010-07-17 Thread Angela Lerma
ls this way can feel free to email me off list. I'm not in to Nazism A very upset ex-list member. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:57 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (

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2010-07-17 Thread Hayden Presley
amers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Exactly. Black. But I was referring to the part before that.LOL. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: "Hayden Presley" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Se

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2010-07-17 Thread Bryan Peterson
Exactly. Black. But I was referring to the part before that.LOL. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: "Hayden Presley" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderat

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2010-07-17 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, Ah, is that what ;d is? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 1:01 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read

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2010-07-17 Thread Hayden Presley
...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Milos Przic Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 5:24 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Yes, and the things that frustrate me are the things like writing 0 instead of o, only because it is written similarly. It is not a

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2010-07-17 Thread Hayden Presley
ist Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) In fact there's a reference to that sort of thing in Kingdom of Loathing. When you very first start the game you can visit the Altar of Literacy, where you have to type the sentence out completely correctly. This is a req

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2010-07-17 Thread Charles Rivard
uly 17, 2010 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi, Ah, well, I get that here too. Whenever I try and tell some of my younger relatives to write in English their responce is to "get with the times." I don't think they quite understand that whe

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2010-07-17 Thread Bryan Peterson
e the ghost of the long dead English language. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi, Ah,

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2010-07-17 Thread Milos Przic
2:12 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi, Ah, well, I get that here too. Whenever I try and tell some of my younger relatives to write in English their responce is to "get with the times." I don't think they quite understand that when spoken v

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Ah, well, I get that here too. Whenever I try and tell some of my younger relatives to write in English their responce is to "get with the times." I don't think they quite understand that when spoken via Jaws, Window-eyes, etc it is nothing but a confusing mess of letters and numbers. As usual

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2010-07-17 Thread Muhammed Deniz
o username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Charles Rivard" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) I've been trying to get people to quit writing that way by

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2010-07-17 Thread Charles Rivard
ject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Will, Yeah, I know. I’ll blame that spelling error on MS Outlook 2007 as that is what I used to compose and spell checked the message with. It prompted me to correct the spelling for Muhammed, which I did, and after you pointed i

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2010-07-17 Thread Charles Rivard
mas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Bryan, Definitely. I hate that internet short-hand that has become very popular over the last few years. I don’t mind a few like “lol” o

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2010-07-17 Thread Bryan Peterson
s urr unlock code. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Bryan, Definitely. I hate that int

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2010-07-17 Thread Muhammed Deniz
From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Muhammed, Um…Is this some kind of joke? That’s bad. Very bad. Lol! On 7/17/10, Muhammed Deniz wrote: Well, my punkt

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammed, Um…Is this some kind of joke? That’s bad. Very bad. Lol! On 7/17/10, Muhammed Deniz wrote: > Well, my punktuation lack ain't bad. You no, my punktuation is improving. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@au

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2010-07-17 Thread dark
n Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Well that's a given. But it depresses me to know how many people, whether blind or sighted, whose native language is English and

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Will, Smile. No I wasn’t offended. That’s why I was a bit flip by saying I’ll let Outlook take the blame. It was my fault for not checking that the name in the replacement list wasn’t the right one, but I got out of it by blaming Outlook 2007 all the same. Grin. On 7/17/10, Wil James wrote:

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, Definitely. I hate that internet short-hand that has become very popular over the last few years. I don’t mind a few like “lol” or btw” once and a while, but I have a niece that practically writes every e-mail, Facebook post, etc made up almost entirely in short-hand. What you call netspe

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2010-07-17 Thread Wil James
yssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Will, Yeah, I know. I'll blame that spelling error on MS Outlook 2007 as that is what I used to compose and spell checked the message with. It prompted me to correct the spelling for Muhammed, which I did, and after you pointed it out I noticed

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Will, Yeah, I know. I’ll blame that spelling error on MS Outlook 2007 as that is what I used to compose and spell checked the message with. It prompted me to correct the spelling for Muhammed, which I did, and after you pointed it out I noticed it gave me the incorrect spelling in this case. The

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2010-07-17 Thread Bryan Peterson
ely refuse to use that Netspeak nonsense. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Hi Bryan, T

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2010-07-17 Thread Muhammed Deniz
"Wil James" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Yeah, I know, but he didn't notice what he mistyped. Just proving a point that he was

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, That is certainly true. However, I’d rather an occasional mistake like their instead of there or sail instead of sale if the rest of the message is fairly well written and appears to have been proofread as best as the author can to his/her ability. We’ll of course make some exceptions for

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2010-07-17 Thread Wil James
ssion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) That was because he miss typed. My audio games for the blind group. Discussions off topic are welcome in the holidays. Talking about games is welcome, talking about computer problems is welcome when their are know ho

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2010-07-17 Thread Muhammed Deniz
From: "Wil James" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Since we're talking about spelling, you got Muhammed's name wrong. It's with an e d, not an

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2010-07-17 Thread Milos Przic
: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Uhm, he did.

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2010-07-17 Thread Wil James
ise.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wiljames Personal web page: http://www.wilanddenise.com/wil -- -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward [mailto:thomasward1...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 12:59 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Mo

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2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammad, Basically, a sloppy message is one where it appears the author of the post made no attempt to proofread his/her spelling or grammar. Mind you I’m not saying the message has to be absolutely textbook perfect. What we are looking for is if the spelling and grammar are good enough that me

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2010-07-17 Thread Muhammed Deniz
o username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Uhm, he did. Puch up instead of punch up. Things like that. And, as

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2010-07-17 Thread Charles Rivard
: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Just don't rely entirely on them since they don't catch misplaced words. Words that sound the same as the one you want. If they're not

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2010-07-17 Thread Bryan Peterson
spell checker won't even be able to come up with the correct one. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: "Charles Rivard" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message

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2010-07-17 Thread Bryan Peterson
scussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Ok. But I have a question, Thomas. Could you give us an example of sloppy messages? I no that you said about 1 liners, but I wonder what you mean buy sloppy messages. My

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2010-07-17 Thread Charles Rivard
e the best beasts! - Original Message - From: "Muhammed Deniz" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read) Ok. But I have a question, Thomas. Could you give us an example of slopp

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2010-07-17 Thread Muhammed Deniz
email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:57 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (pl

[Audyssey] Important Moderator Message (please read)

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello gamers, There are a few list issues I’d like to bring to your attention and hope you choose to listen to this friendly moderator message as I only have the time and energy to say this once. Over the past month or so I have been busy with moving, attending to some other personal issues, and ha