Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:29:21 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Top Posting, overquoting, grammatical errors, etc.
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 07:54 AM 3/29/05 EST, MarkLFischer at aol.com wrote:
>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.

There's a place to eat here in Potomac that calls itself a "Delly"...

>As a matter of  principle,
>I try and avoid merchants who can't spell their own product,

I try *to* avoid them myself.  Actually, I don't just try.  I actually do
avoid them. ;-)

>professionals, who are supposed to have gone to school.  See:  Jacksonville,
>Florida's infamous "Leagal Clinic."

Which brings up "illegal", which sounds like a sick bird.  The correct
term, or so I hear, is "unlawful".  I suppose "illegal" might mean "bad law".

>>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.

Ghod bless it until you have to write a program to support it.  Most
languages in common use don't do that inherently yet, so every program that
wants to deal with it has to reinvent the wheel.  A PITA, so most don't
bother.

-- Mike B.
--
What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?