# sentient trees yes, usage no *The Urth list — 8 messages, 6 voices, 01 Sep 2006* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Ranjit Bhatnagar *01 Sep 2006, 19:30* Here's the official word from the list owner (me!) -- Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED Talking about email formatting: STRONGLY DISCOURAGED "Interleaving": ENCOURAGED Top-posting: MILDLY DISCOURAGED Complaining about top-posting: STRONGLY DISCOURAGED Quoting the minimum necessary from previous posts to make your reply intelligible: STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. EXCESSIVE USE of CAPITAL LETTERS: discouraged. Sorry. - ranjit --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *01 Sep 2006, 19:42 · in reply to Ranjit Bhatnagar* Ranjit, Thank you for clarifying. I wish you'd jump in more often! ``` Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant ----- http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer http://www.danehyoakes.com I've got a piece of braaaaain lodge in me heeead!!! ``` --- ### Jeff Wilson *02 Sep 2006, 05:46 · in reply to Ranjit Bhatnagar* > Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote: > Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD > Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED Truly separable? Jeff --- ### Matthew King *02 Sep 2006, 16:37 · in reply to Jeff Wilson* > On Sep 2, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote: > Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote: >> Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD >> Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED > Truly separable? Not when we're discussing Able's narration, or that of the Horn twin who contributed to Return to the Whorl. matthew --- ### Bob Miller *02 Sep 2006, 20:39 · in reply to Jeff Wilson* Speaking of literature and speaking of language usage are topics that can not be separated. Communication requires reasonable language use. > Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote: > Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD > Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED Truly separable? Jeff --- ### Ranjit Bhatnagar *02 Sep 2006, 20:48 · in reply to Bob Miller* > Bom Miller wrote: > Speaking of literature and speaking of language usage are topics that can > not be separated. Communication requires reasonable language use. Look, just think of these as like Asimov's three laws of robotics. Only there's just two of them that I'm concerned with here, but bear with me: > I wrote: > > > Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD > > Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED... ....except where such discouragement would conflict with the First Law. And now for a new rule: Nitpicking the rules - AW, WHAT THE HECK. GO FOR IT. - ranjit --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *03 Sep 2006, 01:36 · in reply to Ranjit Bhatnagar* > On 9/2/06, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote: > And now for a new rule: > Nitpicking the rules - AW, WHAT THE HECK. GO FOR IT. I don't think that's a good idea, Yogi. The Ranger won't like it. ``` Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant ----- http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer http://www.danehyoakes.com I've got a piece of braaaaain lodge in me heeead!!! ``` --- ### b sharp *03 Sep 2006, 02:41 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > Ranjit wrote: > Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD > Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED... ....except where such discouragement would conflict with the First Law. > And now for a new rule: > Nitpicking the rules - AW, WHAT THE HECK. GO FOR IT. High praise to Ranjit for just the right amount of authority and self-deprecation :-) -bsharp ---