Re: punctuated abbreviations // was english spelling reform

Padraic Brown writes:
 > --- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
 >
 > > Deliberately disregarding someones chosen mode
 > > of address strikes me as singularly discourteous.
 >
 > Nah. Just politically incorrect.
 >
They are, to a certain extent, the same thing.  Political correctness,
when not carried to extremes by zealots or turned into a shibboleth,
is simply politeness.

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