Re: jappanes help?

Louise Bremner wrote:
> necoandjeff <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Louise Bremner wrote:
>>
>>>> The thing I find so bizarre about posts like this is there isn't
>>>> even internal consistency. So the guy thinks it is spelled
>>>> jappanese and can't be bothered to look it up. Fine. But to then
>>>> call it jappnese in the very next sentence.
>>>
>>> Ooooops... I've got a sticky "a" key tht sometimes doesn't "take"
>>> (and sometimes repeaats itself too).
>>>
>>>> That alone should be enough to squelch any feelings of charity
>>>> toward the guy...
>>>
>>> Yeah, well, I've got an inbuilt lack of charitable feelings to
>>> anyone who can't be bothered to learn how to quote when replying to
>>> old messages....
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding this message or am i detecting hostility aimed
>> at me here for some reason.
>
> Huh? I'm not saying that you don't quote, am I?

That's why I was questioning whether it was just a misunderstanding. ASCII
conversations are so hard to interpret sometimes...

>> The sticky key theory doesn't explain the missing e in
>> the subject line (or the extra e in the other two variants,
>> depending on which version joroniconia thinks is correct.) The guy
>> simply can't spell, can't be bothered to look up how to spell words
>> and can't even be bothered to tap out something consistent. And I
>> was replying to Sean's "I'm over it now. It was scary" message. The
>> contents of my message were directed at Sean and were a continuation
>> of the previous conversation. It was not intended to be a message to
>> jaroniconia. So I don't think I quoted incorrectly at all.
>
> No, no--it wasn't really intended to be so pointed, nor aimed
> specifically at you. It's just that I've recently been tearing my hair
> out about the blasted "a" key of this keyboard... which is now
> performing perfectly (just to irritate me further, of course).

Keep tearing your hair out like that, and you'll end up looking like me...

Jeff

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