Introduce urself

[v4vijayakumar]

Hi friends

how about introducing urself ?

i m Nikesh from India

Is it a "Me too!" post.

I saw first "me to" post
[http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bnews.csu-cs.1997] in google 20
Year Usenet Timeline.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

v4vijayakumar said:

Is it a "Me too!" post.

Could you guys pipe down, please? This newsgroup is supposed to be about C.

 

[ais523]

Nikesh wrote:

In this particular case it doesn't matter too much, but in general
on usenet you should realize that readers may very well not have
convenient access to previous articles in a thread. That means
that your reply articles should include adequate context, so that
they stand by themselves. Google is NOT usenet, it is only a very
poor interface to the real usenet system. To include proper
context when using google, see my sig. below. Please be sure to
read the referenced URLs.

It's not just people with proper newsreaders that get annoyed when
people don't give context. Even on Google, I find it hard to tell who a
poster is replying to when there is no context in a post (messages
often cross on Usenet, so it isn't necessarily the poster immediately
above them in the archives), and I don't want to have to go back to
read the start of a thread to find out what it's about (which isn't
always on the same Web page, or even the same NG). Although most of the
contextless posts on Usenet are due to Google users, that doesn't mean
that Google users can automatically tell who they're replying to.
(For instance, if I hadn't given context above, it would take me
several minutes using Google as a newsreader to determine that this
message was in reply to CBFalconer's, whereas I have seen newsreaders
which could do it in milliseconds.)

 

[Ben C]

Why are you showing none of the spelling abilities of my grandson
in kindergarten? He can communicate much better than you can. He
correctly spells the words he knows, or at least asks the adults
how to spell them. This is the sort of thing that makes
communication easy. Imbecelic childish abbreviations make
communication hard.

Imbecelic? (Sorry but I couldn't resist...)

 

[CBFalconer]

.... snip ...

Imbecelic? (Sorry but I couldn't resist...)

Use of the wrong middle finger.

--
"If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson
More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>
Also see <http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/>

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> Dik T. Winter posted:
>
>
>
> How does his use of "u" suggest that he's from India?
>
> (I'm genuinely curious, not being sarcastic).

It comes from SMS or TEXT (as the Brits call it: TEXT your message to
4131...). As it is English shorthand, and in the US SMS is not used as
much as in other parts of the world, it is most likely that it comes
from an English speaking country in some other part of the world. I
never have seen a Brit use that shorthand. So there is not much that
remains.

 

[Richard Tobin]

It comes from SMS or TEXT (as the Brits call it: TEXT your message to

That's "Briton", not "Brit". Please don't use these slang
abbreviations on Usenet.

-- Richard

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Richard Tobin said:

That's "Briton", not "Brit". Please don't use these slang
abbreviations on Usenet.

That's "abbrevs", not "abbreviations".

 

[pete]

Richard Tobin said:


That's "abbrevs", not "abbreviations".

I would think that you would prefer "Pomms"
to the fully spelled out version.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_J=F8rgensen?=]

Richard Tobin said:




That's "abbrevs", not "abbreviations".

OMFG!!! How just about "abs" ??? Please don't use those f*cking *ABS* on
usenet? Or better yet: STOP USING THOSE A.'S ON USENET...


Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Martin Jørgensen

 

[Clever Monkey]

I guess they learn to use "u" instead of "you" in their schools...

Now, why would you assume that? This usage is 100% English slang
created by recent English-speaking users of IRC and SMS.

Eventually people grow out of childish things like this, or use it in a
more appropriate manner.

 

[Clever Monkey]

Now, why would you assume that? This usage is 100% English slang
created by recent English-speaking users of IRC and SMS.

Eventually people grow out of childish things like this, or use it in a
more appropriate manner.

One should also point out that people have been doing this sort of thing
for decades. The more restricted the interface is, the more this sort
of thing happens. A prime example is Morse code, which has many
abbreviations and numerical codes to communicate location, marital
status, communication status and the like -- all those things that
people want to talk about when chatting over a constrained link.

No excuse for USENET, however. Unless you have to type with a stick
held in your teeth, there is no excuse for not trying to form coherent
sentences in whatever language is appropriate and comfortable.

 

[Clever Monkey]

v4vijayakumar said:


Could you guys pipe down, please? This newsgroup is supposed to be about C.

Well, given the majority of the postings recently have been poor
attempts at catching up people with "puzzles" or blatant homework
assignments, the diversion into philosophy is not a complete loss.

But I agree in principle that not only have we beaten this thread to
absolute death, it has got a little out of hand.

 

[Ben Pfaff]

Now, why would you assume that? This usage is 100% English slang
created by recent English-speaking users of IRC and SMS.

I saw this kind of thing in use on local bulletin board systems
long before I'd ever heard of IRC or the Internet.

 

[CBFalconer]

Well, given the majority of the postings recently have been poor
attempts at catching up people with "puzzles" or blatant homework
assignments, the diversion into philosophy is not a complete loss.

But I agree in principle that not only have we beaten this thread
to absolute death, it has got a little out of hand.

Just to control any further urges to contribute, PLONK thread.

--
"If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson
More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>
Also see <http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/>

 

[Jordan Abel]

OMFG!!! How just about "abs" ??? Please don't use those f*cking *ABS* on
usenet? Or better yet: STOP USING THOSE A.'S ON USENET...

We should import AFU's BOA.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Martin Jørgensen said:

How just about "abs" ???

See? I knew we'd get back on topic eventually.

 

[John F]

We should import AFU's BOA.

WT* is AFU's BOA?

I'm a dedicated member (DM) of the AAA (Association Against
Abbreviations).

 

[Jordan Abel]

WT* is AFU's BOA?

AFU = alt.folklore.urban

And the BOA is a rather tongue-in-cheek 'ban on acronyms' (or
abbreviations, depending on who you ask)

 

[John F]

AFU = alt.folklore.urban

And the BOA is a rather tongue-in-cheek 'ban on acronyms' (or
abbreviations, depending on who you ask)

I never wanted to check out the _exact_ difference between abb. and
acr. (D'oh!)

Thanks for clarifying that!