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RIP Andre Hedrick (Register)RIP Andre Hedrick (Register)Posted Jul 27, 2012 22:01 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) by leandro Parent article: RIP Andre Hedrick (Register)
However, what you are typing is not English, and you are communicating on an English language site.
posting things in a different language than everything else on a site is annoying and rude.
On a more practical matter, it distracts people from what you are trying to say by making it hard for them to read it.
IT'S WORSE THAN IF YOU WERE TYPING IN ALL CAPS ;-), and we all know how annoying posters who do that can be.
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RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 28, 2012 10:47 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I'll agree, it's annoying, but I must disagree with your claim thatHowever, what you are typing is not EnglishIt is English. It is English as it might have been printed had the people who first took up Gutenberg's new device possessed typefaces that contained all the characters then used in the written language. They didn't, so we dropped some of them. (At least we dropped thorn and yogh, though ash, eth and wynn were dropping out of use anyway. A shame, they're lovely characters. All fonts should have them, even if nobody ever uses them for anything.)
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 28, 2012 12:09 UTC (Sat) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] Well, if he insists on using the 13th century English alphabet, he should by rights also be using 13th century English grammar and vocabulary. What we're seeing here is like having the King James Bible printed in Comic Sans.
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