Re: another silly phonology question

John Cowan wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>> But I'm jiggered if I can understand the stuff above; 'tis unaccountably
>> difficult to read all along down on account of the @ and > and "
>> and so on.  What dialect is that?
>
>It's UTF-7, a barbarous dialect of Unicode.  Roger Mills was sending it
>(by mistake) for a while, and people who reply to his messages sometimes
>end up using it too, because they change setting and forget to change
>them back.>
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. (whine, cringe).  I HOPE it's not happening anymore???

Vis-a-vis the computer, sometimes I feel like someone with a Learner's
Permit behind the wheel of a Formula One car.