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THIS IS "SILLY",ENGLISH IS "NOT A STYLISTIC LANGUAGE".
EGNLISH AT BEST IS COLLECTION OF MANY LANGUAGES INCLUDING SOME OF THE
LESSER LANGUAGES OF YESTER-YEAR (LATIN,GERMAN,AND FRENCH).

AND SO IT GOES .....................!

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> paschke@online.de wrote:
> > >> please see the posting above!!!
> > > Try using less exclamation marks (!), it makes you look silly.
> > 
> > ok, I will try. But don't you think 'silly' is a little bit to
> > hard word for only stylistic problems.
> 
> Hmmm, imagine someone standing in the middle of a croud, having a small
> problem, and *SHOUTING* every sentence out LOUD.
> 
> Isn't that a silly picture?
> 
> > How would you describe MY mgetty+sendfax problem without any
> > exclamation marks?! :-)
> 
> Using normal english grammar, with the occasional question mark.
> 
> Exclamation marks are used for, hmm, exclamations, which the normal
> sentence usually is not.  Especially since what you wrote was wrong 
> (I had checked Griz' pages before, and there WAS new documentation).
> 
> gert
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