Julia Altshuler > wrote in
news:wZQxb.248145$9E1.1337446@attbi_s52:

> 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
>

As the OP of this thread, I have to say that I had a great laugh reading
your post. Reading the thread itself is almost as bad as wading through
the "prollys" and "kewls"! Thanks for brightening and lightening it all.

Wayne