"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message

> I've never seen the "prolly" discussion before, but I have seen the "all
> caps" discussion and the "no caps" discussion and the "uses ... instead
> of periods and commas" discussion and the "mispells everything"
> discussion the "your/you're, there/their/they're, who's/whose and
> it's/its" discussion and a dozen others like it. They all go roughly
> like this:
>
> 1. Original poster posts peeve about some manner of posting that drives
> him/her nuts.
>
> 2. Other posters chime in about how much that bothers them too.
>
> 3. Discussion broadens out to include other peeves.
>
> 4. Plea is made for people to make their messages more easily
> understood/read.
>
> 5. Poster for the dissent says that s/he speaks English as a second
> language and is being made to feel uncomfortable about
> typing/grammar/spelling skills. (Or sometimes time constraints or
> arthritis are given as reasons for typing the way one does.)
>
> 6. Original poster says that while some excuses for obnoxious
> communications are acceptable, other messages are simply too hard to be
> bothered with. Repeat offenders are killfiled.
>
> 7. Errors are found in the messages written by those who purport to
> support good spelling and good grammar. Those people are now dubbed
> pompous.
>
> 8. All hell breaks loose with accusations flying. "If you want me to
> read your messages, write them so I can read them." "Don't be so mean
> to poor arthritic poster who's typing the best she can." "Pompous!"
> "Asshole!"
>
> 9. If there's a moderator, the moderator gets on to tell everyone to
> cut it out. If not, accusations continue for a while until all get bored.
>
> I've found that I can even cut to the chase by admitting that I killfile
> people who post in a way I always find difficult to read without naming
> the specific habits that are too much trouble to bother with.
>
> --Lia

I fell off my chair laughing when I read this - it's
so true. Thanks, Lia!

Dora>