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10 Oct 2024 03:17:40 EDT (-0400)
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From: John VanSickle
Date: 10 Nov 2008 18:01:17
Message: <4918bd3d@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Things that irritate me:
> 
> - email messages that contain no punctuation of any kind just several 
> sentences strung together presumably youre supposed to figure out 
> sentence boundaries from context or something its really quite 
> irritating though
> 
> - Email messages that overuse punctuation!!!!
> 
> - Sentences that end with a question mark despite not being questions. 
> You know the kind of thing I mean:
> 
>   + What is the average flight time?
>   + Draw a histogram of the light times?
> 
> - Sentences that begin and end with "please". (Surely once is enough?)
> 
> - Misuse of the apostrophe. (There's, like, 4 rules or something. Even a 
> retard like me can understand it!)
> 
> - People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."

My pet peeve is people who use "per" to stand for "according to."

Regards,
John


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