----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: Lingo
> En réponse à Abrigon Gusiq <abrigon@...>:
>
> > Yes, so? When I was on this list some years ago, I believe that was
> > the
> > "abbreviation" I used.. Just takes to many key strokes for me.
>
> What? "lang" vs. "lingo"?!!! Are you mad are do you do that on purpose?
How can
> a four-letter word ask more key strokes than a five-letter one?
>
> And
> > oddly
> > people actually often know what I mean. So is it useful? After all the
> > use of communication is to communicate? So how success am I in
> > communicating my meaning?
> >
>
> Very unsuccessful. Your cryptic e-mails mostly take up bandwidth but don't
seem
> to give any meaning, and when they do they are obviously wrong. We have a
100-
> mail limit on this list and we cannot afford this kind of behaviour. So if
you
> want to carry on posting to the list, at least use an understandable
language
> and check your facts before. If it means more keystrokes for you, too bad
for
> you. But we won't accept being the victims of your >laziness.
I don't understand...I don't see what the problem is. I can understand 90%
of his mails...I'm having problems understanding you guys.