Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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From: Alex Hunsley
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:24

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Steven Hill wrote:
>>But not undeserved after you flamed him for a blatantly obvious
>>deliberate spelling mistake. Do you really think he wrote "wot is"
>>instead of "that is" as a genuine error? You started this so don't
>>complain when he pointed out the very obvious in reply to your rude
>>response.
> 
> 
> Since when is "wot" a spelling mistake? 

Ever since it was ever first used in place of "what". Which was probably 
a long time ago.
Also, note I wrote "deliberate spelling mistake".

> It's yet another l33t sp3ak w0rd
> encroaching on civilised language. That is what I am flaming about.

I don't think it could be described as l33t speak, really. What makes 
things like l33t speak so irritating is their pervasive, constant use as 
a complete replacement for normal writing conventions. In the case of 
what Rich wrote, it was obviously a one-off.

> That, and how we're supposed to take this sort of thing seriously, when
> people who appear to be for these causes don't have the common courtesy to
> use English. 

He did use english. You just seem to be flaming his use of the word 
"wot" for want of something else to rag him about.

> Puts a great weight behind your supposed cause, doesn't it?

What is 'my' cause that you're referring to? The word 'suppose' was 
correct, I suppose, in that it is a cause that you suppose I have. I 
don't think that's exactly what you meant though by 'supposed', however...
So let's see. You're slagging off beliefs you've projected onto me 
because of a deliberate one-off language deviation of another person. 
Hmmm....

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