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|    Alexander Koryagin to Mortar M.    |
|    Strange a bit    |
|    25 Nov 24 11:08:56    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 67443ea2       REPLY: 2662.fido_englisht@1:124/5016 2ba92636       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20241026       NOTE: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101       Thunderbird/31.7.0       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0200       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02              Hi, Mortar M.!       I read your message from 25.11.2024 03:49               AH>> It remains to me only to wonder about the English language        AH>> evolution.              Ouch - I've never seen this AH answer.               MM> If social media's any indication, I'd say it's more like        MM> devolving. What's really weird is reading posts from        MM> programmers--a skill where precision is essential--who seem        MM> unable to write a sentence without committing spelling,        MM> punctuation or other grammatical error, often all at once.                     I still often forget to put ";" typing my C++ texts. Thanks to the compiler       which checks it. ;-)              Bye, Mortar!       Alexander Koryagin       english_tutor 2024              ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187       SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/757 7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 720       SEEN-BY: 218/840 850 860 870 880 930 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/114 206 300 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 902/26 5020/400 1042       SEEN-BY: 5075/35       PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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