On 2012/08/16 07:01 AM, Dan Sommers wrote:
When I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off I
am not dictating.
Very good.
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On 2012-08-16, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On 2012-08-15 at 13:59:53 +,
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2012-08-15, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> > Perhaps you said "Please use `m4-style quotes rather than matching
>> > ASCII quotes' or `something else' to indicate omission instead".
>
> When I've got
On 2012-08-15 at 13:59:53 +,
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-08-15, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Perhaps you said "Please use `m4-style quotes rather than matching
> > ASCII quotes' or `something else' to indicate omission instead".
When I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take
On 2012-08-15, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> wrote:
>> Please use `[...]' or `[?]' to indicate omission instead. I could have
>> written `politeness...' myself.
>
> Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help?
Because that's the standar
Chris Angelico wrote:
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
>>> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, though our surnames are
>>> similar). That's generally been sufficient for distinguishing
>>> purposes,
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:41:20 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ian Kelly
> wrote:
>> Irrelevant. Why would an author adhering to common principles of style
>> ever use square-bracketed dots in a statement that he authored himself?
>
> You mean exactly the way he di
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> Irrelevant. Why would an author adhering to common principles of
> style ever use square-bracketed dots in a statement that he authored
> himself?
You mean exactly the way he did in the post you quoted me as quoting?
ChrisA
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> wrote:
>> Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead. I could have
>> written `politeness...' myself.
>
> Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help?
The squ
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
>> wrote:
>> > Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead. I could
>> > have written `politeness...' myself.
>>
>> Incidentally, how _do_ the
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> It was a joke, implying that my mother uses the same "truly unique"
> handle as you.
>
> With over 7 billion people on the planet, and no upper limit on the
> number of handles anyone can take, together with the lack of any
> definitive cen
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> wrote:
> > Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead. I could
> > have written `politeness...' myself.
>
> Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help?
They are a long-standing convention f
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:44:29 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:46:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
>>> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, tho
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
wrote:
> Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead. I could have
> written `politeness...' myself.
Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help? Can a reader know
that you put square-bracketed dots and that I didn't om
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
>> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, though our surnames are
>> similar). That's generally been sufficient for distinguishing
>> pur
Chris Angelico wrote:
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Probably you were asked that so that your postings could be distinguished
>> from that of the other potential Marks around here.
>
> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:46:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
>> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, though our surnames are similar).
>> That's generally been sufficient
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:46:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, though our surnames are similar).
> That's generally been sufficient for distinguishing purposes, though if
> anyone wants a truly u
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
wrote:
> Probably you were asked that so that your postings could be distinguished
> from that of the other potential Marks around here.
I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
"ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to Dave
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 14/08/2012 04:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:34:46 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>> When did you seek my permission to call me by my forename?
>> Sheesh. It's 2012, not 1812. If you sign your posts with your full name,
>> you have to expect that peopl
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