Language

Point of process

Submitted September 5, 2008 - 12:52 pm by Al Giordano

Joy - I won't always approve "reposts" of comments from elsewhere, and it was a little much for you to post it on the previous thread and then post it again here. I've deleted it from the previous thread, and would ask that in the future commenters stick to conversing with original thoughts here rather than regurgitating product that already appears online.

As with when quoting from commercial media reports or other bloggers, when quoting ourselves, we should excerpt only part of it and simply link to the rest.

Also, for everybody's general information: in recent days some aspiring commenters have submitted comments that put the headline or too much of the text in ALL CAPS. Want to know why those posts haven't made the cut here? Because they have too many capitalized words, which make any website seem ugly and screeching. It doesn't matter what the content is: over-capitalization won't get past the goalie here!

(We can't complain about the lack of attention to visuals and quality elsewhere if we don't keep our own shop smart.)

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