On Thursday 09 June 2005 04:35 pm, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:34:53 -0400, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote: > >> be getting out of hand :) > >> us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to > >> Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give > > [...] > > > With that being said, and realizing that with a .de domain, you are > > probably using English as a second language, one could ask that you > > make an effort to use proper style, such as writing in complete > > sentences, capitalizing the beginning of your sentences, and > > completing your sentences. > > OK, for the sake of those who missed the point of David Jardine's > message, you read line 3 first, then line 2, then line 1. It's supposed > to emulate the nonsense of top-posting. It isn't broken English. > > Here it is in proper order: > > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote: > >> Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give > >> us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to > >> be getting out of hand :) > > (David, I think you're to subtle for the majority of the people on this > list. ;-) )
No. I saw that, figured it was an attempt to be clever in making one's point and decided it was stupid. Why? There's a big difference between inverting a few lines and having a different order for paragraphs. As a writer, to me, it's comparing apples and oranges and, well, just a bad attempt at clever, or a reminder of a MOTD I used to get on my Amiga shell: "Too clever is dumb." Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
