Re: Can you regulate language and communication

Look ya schmo, yuse can play semanics all ya want but picking on imprecision in language will not halt human communication. Ever hear of Humpty Dumpty? OTOH, your pickiness is getting tiresome.

PLONK

R "I have never eaten a cat but I do enjoy . . ." TF

Engineer wrote:

Moka Java wrote:

(nothing worth quoting)

As usual, top posting is a good indicator of a post that is worthless.

Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html

How do I quote correctly in usenet?
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

Common Mistakes in Usenet Postings and How to Avoid Them
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/mail-news-errors.html#quoting

Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

+What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html




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