From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Questor pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:06:09 -0800, Snidely  wrote:   
   >> Lo, on the 11/24/2020, Questor did proclaim ...   
   >>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:04:16 -0800 (PST), Roger House <61rroger@gmail.com>   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>> My smartphone has a news feature.  I was briefly looking at a news story   
   >>>> fr= om Breitbart news about some stuff that Fox news host Laura Ingraham   
   >>>> said o= n her show.  At one point, it says/shows, (for lack of a better   
   >>>> way of sayi= ng it), and this next little bit is a direct quote from the   
   >>>> news piece:  "[= U]nless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and   
   >>>> unlikely manner, Joe = Biden will be inaugurated on January 20."  There   
   >>>> more stuff before and afte= r the part that I quoted, but my question is   
   >>>> only about something in the qu= oted part.  Here's my question.  Why is   
   >>>> the "U" in the word unless in brack= ets and what is the point of putting   
   >>>> it in the brackets?  The "U" is in bra= ckets in the printed news piece, I   
   >>>> didn't do it only by myself.  Thanks eve= ryone in advance!   
   >>>   
   >>> The big problem is why are you reading a right-wing nutjob propaganda site   
   >>> like Breitfart?  That stuff is going to rot your mind, if it hasn't   
   >>> already.   Of course, Fox is little better.   
   >>   
   >> Of course a response like that is going to make everyone move to   
   >> left-wing sources.   
   >   
   > Not so much left-wing sources as reality-based sources.   
      
   You have indubiatebly swayed many folk.   
      
   >>> The second problem is using Goo-goo groups [spit]   
   >>> to post to Usenet, with its   
   >>> execrable "flowed text" format.  (I've left it unchanged above.)  Doesn't   
   >>> anyone believe in line breaks anymore?   
   >>   
   >> It's a conciousness-raising thing, and I think rroger is using   
   >> different equipment than we're used to for his posts, so gentle hints   
   >> may be appropriate.   
   >   
   > I don't know who has done more damage to Usenet -- Elliot Spitzer or Google.   
      
   Well, since your own superiority is unquestioned, we can absolve you.   
      
   /dps   
      
      
   --   
   "That’s where I end with this kind of conversation: Language is   
   crucial, and yet not the answer."   
     Jonathan Rosa, sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist,   
   Stanford.,2020   
      
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