"Wottehell" is forbidden (everybody knows that).
Snarkily (sp?) yours,
Candice
--- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> You can post what you like if you're a private
> individual; if you post
> representing an organisation, well, yes, from the
> organisation's POV,
> yes, it does matter. For a start, you wouldn't get
> snarky threads like
> this happening. If the Editor of the Guardian writes
> to me, then I
> expect his missives to be perfect and in good order,
> if the missive is
> full of spelling mistakes then well ... OTOH, if
> Alan Rusbridger
> writes to me as one individual to another, even on
> an open forum, then
> wottehell. I don't care. He can even say shit or
> fuck if he wants. So
> I guess the answer to your question is contextual.
> If you email the
> forum with news of an event/organisation, then,
> unless the email
> states otherwise, I will assume that there is
> connection between you
> and that event/organisation.
>
> Is there a point in being anal? I guess,
> unfortunately, that's my job;
> that's what computer scientists and engineers do
> best. They dance on
> pin-heads for a living, arguing about the validity
> or watchemacallit
> of symbols, signs and semantics. It's the comic-book
> guy from the
> Simpsons, but worse. However, as text-smiths, if we
> aren't anal about
> words, and you take analness to be some sort of
> measure of care,
> absorption etc, what do we care about?
>
> As for the usage of the word "shit", it's not the
> word that's the
> issue, it's who it was said by (forum moderator) is
> a slight issue.
> Speaking as an ordinary list-member, I don't mind if
> list-members use
> the words shit and fuck in any and every email, but,
> like it or not,
> once you're the forum moderator, added-value get's
> attached to any
> email you send, whatever the context.
>
> Roger
>
> On 4/2/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > So if I post that the Wallace Stevens Journal, for
> which I am an editor, is
> > interested in poems dealing with Stevens' life &
> themes, it's not really me
> > posting? How does that transformation occur? And
> is the entity that posts in
> > my place to be held to more exacting editorial
> standards than me, when I
> > post as myself?
> >
> > jd
> >
> > On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > He's posting for ICORN, not as an individual.
> ICORN, whose aims I
> > > sympathise with, is supposed to be a "literary"
> quarterly involved in
> > > the translation of poetry, has been advertised
> by an email which
> > > contains at least two major spelling mistakes
> concerning a poet's name
> > > and one of his better poems; I notice the rest
> of the email was
> > > immaculate. Maybe I expect too much; but you
> expect no one to comment?
> > > This list is full of smart-arses, that's one of
> it's speicial
> > > qualities. I remember someone calling it the
> awkward squad.
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > On 4/2/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > > > Ren Powell is a member of this, uh, community.
> Posts to the list from
> > > > members are not, by definition, "spam." In
> fact, it is quite common for
> > > > members to post announcements to the list
> about various journals,
> > > readings,
> > > > etc. And if we all posted corrections to each
> others typos &
> > > misspellings we
> > > > would crash the server.
> > > >
> > > > jd
> > > >
> > > > On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Greetings BenjiMouse. Just in time to
> witness the, uh, shit hitting
> > > the
> > > > > fan.
> > > > >
> > > > > re: Wellfed Owens: fine by me if Poetry orgs
> wish to spam this list,
> > > > > at least they should get the poetry bits
> correctly spelled etc o'wise
> > > > > it dents their credibility, no?
> > > > >
> > > > > Roger
> > > > >
> > > > > On 4/2/07, Robin Hamilton
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > > > From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > There is a life elsewhere.
> > > > > > > mj
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No there isn't -- ask Coriolanus. Or
> Cavafy, in "The City".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > PedantMouse
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > > > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious."
> Oscar Wilde
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Joseph Duemer
> > > > Professor of Humanities
> > > > Clarkson University
> > > > [sharpsand.net]
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar
> Wilde
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
> >
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
>
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