Comments on: Forum formatting in political posturing http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/2009/05/forum-formatting-in-political-posturing/ Time to live. Sat, 06 Sep 2014 18:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Steve http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/2009/05/forum-formatting-in-political-posturing/comment-page-1/#comment-2746 Mon, 18 May 2009 20:41:17 +0000 http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/?p=2399#comment-2746 The truth of “How to win an argument on the internet” is pretty much why I’ve never signed up for Youtube. I’d be tempted to make well thought out comments using proper grammar and spelling, which is entirely inappropriate for Youtube. “We didn’t start the flame war” on College Humor is another funny commentary on the subject.

~Steve

]]> By: Colleen http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/2009/05/forum-formatting-in-political-posturing/comment-page-1/#comment-2505 Tue, 12 May 2009 19:10:46 +0000 http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/?p=2399#comment-2505 Thanks for the link, and for a very interesting blog. It seems that in many languages (German and Arabic for example) this multiple levels of language has been accepted reality for generations. I.E. Arabs write in localese for local communication but when a bunch get together they revert to a more sterile and formal pan-Arab. It’s almost getting that way in Spanish, isn’t it! But it’s a new thing for English, having two actual written standards.

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