tedd wrote:
At 2:02 PM -0700 9/1/09, Jessi Berkelhammer wrote:
As a monolingual North American, I am also very uncomfortable with
this thread.
A rant about abbreviations/IRC jargon is an appropriate discussion for
list, but criticizing how non-native English speakers write English is
not.
At 9:40 AM +0100 9/2/09, Peter Ford wrote:
The American standardisation
of English spelling did quite enough damage to the beautiful language of
Shakespeare (who couldn't even spell his own name consistently), without any
more neologisms creeping in.
Okay, Shakespeare... 2B || !2B is an
-Original Message-
From: Peter Ford [mailto:p...@justcroft.com]
Sent: 02 September 2009 09:40
Words that are two lengthy: of, an, to, it (etc.)
Words that are too lengthy: antidisestablishmentarianism,
internationalisation and that other one that begins with
flocci... something
At 9:06 PM -0400 8/31/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example, substituting u for you. Oddly
enough, I'm seeing this primarily in foreign language posters, not in
native English speakers. It's often
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:44 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:06 PM -0400 8/31/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example, substituting u for you. Oddly
enough, I'm seeing this primarily in
2009/9/1 Martin Scotta martinsco...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:44 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:06 PM -0400 8/31/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example, substituting u
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:16 -0300, Martin Scotta wrote:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:44 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:06 PM -0400 8/31/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example,
At 3:27 PM +0100 9/1/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:16 -0300, Martin Scotta wrote:
-snip-
Martin Scotta
Spanish Speaker
I disagree (and I did translate and read your Spanish message). This
mailing list is English (I'm not sure if similar ones exist for
From: Luke
2009/9/1 Martin Scotta martinsco...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:44 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:06 PM -0400 8/31/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example,
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:05 -0400, Bob McConnell wrote:
From: Luke
2009/9/1 Martin Scotta martinsco...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:44 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:06 PM -0400 8/31/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people
At 11:16 AM -0300 9/1/09, Martin Scotta wrote:
As a non-english speaker I feel very uncomfortable with this thread.
You shouldn't feel uncomfortable because no one is talking about you.
Cheers,
tedd
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On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 13:33 -0400, tedd wrote:
At 11:16 AM -0300 9/1/09, Martin Scotta wrote:
As a non-english speaker I feel very uncomfortable with this thread.
You shouldn't feel uncomfortable because no one is talking about you.
Cheers,
tedd
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 13:36, Ashley Sheridana...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote:
I'll second that, I've not once seen you use txt spk, 744t speak, or any
other abominable mess that passes for language these days!
744t speak is that like 733t speak 2.0? ;-P
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/Daniel P. Brown
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 14:07 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 13:36, Ashley Sheridana...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
wrote:
I'll second that, I've not once seen you use txt spk, 744t speak, or any
other abominable mess that passes for language these days!
744t speak is
As a monolingual North American, I am also very uncomfortable with this
thread.
A rant about abbreviations/IRC jargon is an appropriate discussion for
list, but criticizing how non-native English speakers write English is
not. This thread began with a mention of the attitude that non-native
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 17:02, Jessi Berkelhammerjberkelham...@desc.org wrote:
As a monolingual North American, I am also very uncomfortable with this
thread.
A rant about abbreviations/IRC jargon is an appropriate discussion for list,
but criticizing how non-native English speakers write
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:02:31PM -0700, Jessi Berkelhammer wrote:
As a monolingual North American, I am also very uncomfortable with this
thread.
A rant about abbreviations/IRC jargon is an appropriate discussion for
list, but criticizing how non-native English speakers write English is
At 2:02 PM -0700 9/1/09, Jessi Berkelhammer wrote:
As a monolingual North American, I am also very uncomfortable with
this thread.
A rant about abbreviations/IRC jargon is an appropriate discussion
for list, but criticizing how non-native English speakers write
English is not. This thread
Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example, substituting u for you. Oddly
enough, I'm seeing this primarily in foreign language posters, not in
native English speakers. It's often accompanied by English so
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 21:06, Paul M Fosterpa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example, substituting u for you. Oddly
enough, I'm seeing this primarily in foreign language posters, not in
native
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:10:54PM -0400, Stephen wrote:
Paul M Foster wrote:
I'm sorry, but is anyone else annoyed by people who attempt to use IRC
jargon on mailing lists? For example, substituting u for you. Oddly
enough, I'm seeing this primarily in foreign language posters, not in
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