Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> Hmm. Reminds me of how careful one must be during an auction... scratch
> your head, and you just spent $5000 on some useless item. Clear your
> throat and you just bought a $10,000 item. Stand up to leave and suddenly
> your life savings is left on the chair. ;-)
Hence the invention of the auction paddle with a number on it.  Holding up
the paddle constitutes bidding (the number identifies you); nothing else does.
It looks like a squared-off table tennis racquet.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_