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Skriven 2006-02-06 18:43:08 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
  Kommentar till text 24909 av Michiel Van Der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Re: Texas Grapefruit GRE
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 -=> On 02-06-06  10:29,  Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-
 -=> spoke to Roy Witt about Texas Grapefruit GREAT! <=-

 MVDV> You don't get the *local* news in English. Not here, not in Thailand.
 
   We got local news in English when we visited our son in Germany.
   That is how we found out about the deadlock in the German election
   (now resolved via a grand coalition).

 MVDV> Actually one can do reasonably well without umlauts and accents in
 MVDV> Dutch.  They aren't used very much anyway and one can usually just 
 MVDV> omit them without harming comprehension. There are a few 
 MVDV> exeptions such as één and een. ("one" resp, "a") In the 
 MVDV> time when moderators went into a flat spinover "high ascii" 
 MVDV> we simply wrote e1n instead of één when it mattered. The 
 MVDV> SMS gang has now adopted that custom.

   By SMS, do you mean Short Message Service?   If so, they seem to
   really do a lot of things to the language in the interest of
   shortening messages to the minimum number of key strokes on a
   telephone keypad.   Personally, I don't see how they can do it:-}}

   The "high ascii" character prohibition by some moderators stems from
   their reading ECHOPOL1.  It lists them as being prohibited.  IMO,
   without good cause -- one of the rules in the echo I help moderate
   explicitly allows them when appropriate:
 ==quote==
9.  As stated in rule 6, the only language of the echo is English.
    However, there are many foreign words which are common in cooking
    terminology. For this reason, occasional and limited use of the
    extended character set (i.e. high ascii) is allowed in messages and
    recipes *only* in appropriate context, e.g. foreign words, degree
    symbols and currency signs. High ascii fractions are not allowed
    because some BBS software transforms them into whole numbers.

    The use of the extended character set (ascii codes 127 and above),
    the control characters (ascii codes 31 and below), or ansi escape
    code sequences for artistic purposes is *not* allowed in messages or
    signature blocks.
 ==endquote==

   I've seen similar wording in the rules of some other echos.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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