Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:09 +0000 1/30/0, a fine scholar, Mike Johnston wrote: > >Actually, my statement is completely called for, because I'm not being >argumentative. I mean it literally. Half the time, I can't figure out >what in the hell Mark's talking about, much less what he means to imply. >I think that at times, I've been mislead into taking offense where Mark >meant no offense. I understood what you meant here, perhaps because I felt the same way. > >There are a few other listmembers who are even worse. Either they don't >bother to proofread their own messages even once, or they are not native >English speakers and run into trouble expressing their thoughts, or they >have "doctor's handwriting" disease, whereby they think it's sufficient >if they understand their own messages themselves, with no thought to >whether anyone else is going to be able to puzzle them out. Never heard the handwriting disease expression before. I always call it "COIK" - Clear Only If Known. Cheers! Ken Wilcox - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>