That little messages typed in tiny font are becoming the medium of choice on this forum for the "parting shot" part of posts, instead of the old standby "internyms"? Is the internym a disappearing vestige of the old BBS?
Eric "who reads most of Rick Denney's posts just to enjoy his internyms, although there is of course other good info in there" L.
Has anyone else noticed...
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I, for one, feel that internyms, small fonts, quotation marks, parentheticals, etc. are overused in general, not just on bulletin boards and forums. I routinely have to re-draft and edit items for clarity at work and other places where such idioms do not make sense in the attempted context, do not contribute to the point or emphasis trying to be made, and are just downright distracting.
Too often such idioms are used as shorthanded ways of trying to get a point across that is much better made by proper drafting.
I would heartily recommend The Elements of Style by Strunk and White to all:
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fo ... 26-3385409
Too often such idioms are used as shorthanded ways of trying to get a point across that is much better made by proper drafting.
I would heartily recommend The Elements of Style by Strunk and White to all:
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fo ... 26-3385409
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[quote="Wikipedia"]
Và o mùa hè năm 1791, cuá»™c sống của Mozart trở nên đầy đủ, hạnh phúc và báºn rá»™n. Tình trạng tà i chÃnh trở nên khả quan là do có nhiá»
Và o mùa hè năm 1791, cuá»™c sống của Mozart trở nên đầy đủ, hạnh phúc và báºn rá»™n. Tình trạng tà i chÃnh trở nên khả quan là do có nhiá»
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Ohh...
It didn't work.. And I spent all that time translating...bloke wrote:.... - - .--. ---... -..-. -..-. .. -- .- --. . ... .-.-.- ...- .. .-.. .-.. .- --. . ...- --- .. -.-. . .-.-.- -.-. --- -- -..-. .. ... ... ..- . ... -..-. ----- ..... ....- ..--- -..-. .-.. -.-. .-.-.- .--- .--. --.
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Re: Ohh...
Jsut fnoud it, Tahkns!the elephant wrote:Try this translator. It is what I use because I cannot read morse at all. Just remove the five asterisks in the "http" part of the address. Without the asterisks the address was a visible hyperlink. (I forgot about the fact that URLs are underlined and displayed in blue by default, so my WWW addy stuck out like a sore thumb at the bottom of my blank message post! Stupid me!) You will have to cut and paste this for it to work, as I said, without the asterisks! BTW, I could not get Joe's photo link to work, either.jbaylies wrote:And I spent all that time translating...
ht*****tp://morsecode.scphillips.com/cgi-bin/morse.cgi
