Re: your mail

At 18:14 +1200 1.8.1999, andrew wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
>
>> N N wrote:
>>
>> > 1 odr chalenge 2 trad!z!onl theor!ez ov knouledge komz 4rom fem!n!zt
>zkolarsh!p.
>
>> [...]
>>
>> Is anyone else having a lot of problems with N N's posts?  Mine
>> always come out like the above.
>>
>This appears to be normal for N N.  To read through one of his messages
>requires the right frame of mind.  His phonology is consistant but his
>perspective is consistantly lost because it is easier to reach for the
>delete key.  Despite regular complaints about the way he writes and
>presents language he persists.  I commend him for that, but I think for
>many of us, including myself, his messages are not getting across.
Esp. for us who are not native speakers of English.  It is almost an insult
to us!  Note: a more consistently phonemic spelling would be OK with me,
but NN's stuff is just a show-off...

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