Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ruud Harmsen Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: HenHanna Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:28:08 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 74 Message-ID: <3bp51jl4t7mm5cu3o6n2tipk9lmq0q4ds0@4ax.com> References: <3vv11j11qokro03918cn1tq247up2dqjla@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 18:28:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b6d68251d637b7864c240980d18ae3cf"; logging-data="3092927"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19tuYubx0l4peCEQ3a8nYxI" Cancel-Lock: sha1:vm4cnF6AessPEHg/bEIBsqbRQRU= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Bytes: 3382 Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:42:04 +0200: Athel Cornish-Bowden scribeva: >On 2024-04-06 07:59:35 +0000, Ruud Harmsen said: > >> Sat, 6 Apr 2024 09:42:47 +0200: Clucker scribeva: >> >>> On 05/04/2024 14:35, db wrote: >>>> I note that almost all postings here are ostensibly >>>> from one HenHanna. Can it be that this person has >>>> posted all these, or is this a pseudonym given to >>>> a lot of actual people? >>> >>> No collective pseudonym, just one deranged idiot. >> >> I think: a sincere and honest person, somewhere on the autistic >> spectrum, therefore understood by few. Strong on details, that others >> might think are irrelevant. >> >> I see the hate > >"hate" is an exaggeration > >> he unwillingly > >How do you know that it's not deliberate? > >> invokes in some as a form of >> discrimination, or ignorance at best. > >"Ignorance" is nonsense. We have known HenHanna at alt.usage.english >from long before you re- >appeared there. "Discrimation": what basis do you >have for saying that? Is there anyone else you think is discriminated >against? Yourself, perhaps, when you first appeared at >alt.usage.english and immediately started telling people who had been >there for years how they should post. Does it surprise you that no one >liked that? You irritate me. A lot. You're just proving my point. >So far as HenHanna is concerned, here are some things that annoy people: > >1. Refusing to format messages in a normal way; Refusing, or being unable. >2. Refusing to use normal punctuation; > >3. Refusing to use capitals when they are needed (beginnings of >sentences, the pronoun I, etc.); > >4. Ignoring all suggestions (and not offering arguments against them); > >5. Using abbreviations like pls and ppl that may be acceptable in SMS >messages, but are not acceptable in a group devoted to English usage; > >6. Insisting on signing as HH after being told several times that there >was already an HH at alt.usage.english who had been there much earlier. >(He's gone now, but was a regular when HenHanna arrived.) > >> Perhaps if you think more, and >> realise we cannot be all the same? > >Irrelevant >> >>> P.S. The reason s/he is the only poster here is because the other >>> regulars (Shepelev, Steve Hayes) have fled to AUE. -- Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com