From: MarkLFischer at aol.com
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:54:51 EST
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Top Posting, overquoting, grammatical errors, etc.
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

In a message dated 3/28/2005 10:32:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
omni at omniphile.com writes:

>also keep wondering what "hobbiest" means..."the most hobby"?  I'm  almost
>certain they were flailing around trying to find  "hobbyist".

"Bokay" for "Bouquet", and used by a florist yet.  As a matter of  principle,
I try and avoid merchants who can't spell their own product,  especially
professionals, who are supposed to have gone to school.  See:  Jacksonville,
Florida's infamous "Leagal Clinic."

>Hence the proliferation of character sets, some
>multi-byte to  handle non-alphabetic languages like Chinese where you have
>thousands of  "characters" to deal with.

Ghod Bless Unicode.  It even supports  Esperanto.