From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:23:21 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87zm7k8k3a.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87y7n8y2z4.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <878xf8xlbx.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <878xf4aomb.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <1171207254.2888.39.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171230073 31783 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2007 21:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:41:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 11 22:41:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGMRW-00058i-ND for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGMRV-0007xA-V1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:41:05 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-10!sn-xt-ams-08!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-02!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1vLPJIzTNmuELpCOK/YQQ2zc2do= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 29 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145499 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41104 Archived-At: William Case writes: > Hi Tim: > >> Like you say you want, now I live from one self-imposed project to the >> next. > > One of my self-imposed projects is to see if I can post something > without typos or niggly grammar mistakes. > > (Please disregard any misplaced commas or semi-colons on the previous > post). > -- Hi Bill, don't worry too much about it. People tend to knock out responses on the Internet with speed - grammar, spelling etc, tend to be forsaken for speed and a more relaxed conversational tone. I have no real opinion regarding whether this is a bad thing or not, but at least it isn't geting as wild as text messaging on phones - now thats approaching a new language! We also see a lot of posts from people whith something other than english as their native language. As long as its not too hard to understand the point being made, grammar, punctuation and spelling are less critical IMO. Others will disagree. regards, Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au