XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid   
      
   Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
      
   > So far as HenHanna is concerned, here are some things that annoy people:   
   >   
   > 1. Refusing to format messages in a normal way;   
      
   Harmless.   
      
   > 2. Refusing to use normal punctuation;   
      
   Harmless.   
      
   > 3. Refusing to use capitals when they are needed (beginnings of   
   > sentences, the pronoun I, etc.);   
      
   Harmless.   
      
   > 4. Ignoring all suggestions (and not offering arguments against them);   
      
   That is more than annoying:  it is regressive.   
      
   > 5. Using abbreviations like pls and ppl that may be acceptable in SMS   
   > messages, but are not acceptable in a group devoted to English usage;   
      
   Harmless.   
      
   > 6. Insisting on signing as HH after being told several times that there   
   > was already an HH at alt.usage.english who had been there much earlier.   
   > (He's gone now, but was a regular when HenHanna arrived.)   
      
   You would already be able to disambiguate the two by other methods.   
      
      
      
      
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