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The Urth list — 8 messages, 6 voices, 01 Sep 2006
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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 03 Sep 2006, 01:36
  in reply to Ranjit Bhatnagar

> On 9/2/06, Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com> 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.

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b sharp — 03 Sep 2006, 02:41
  follows, by subject match 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

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