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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
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Subject: Re: HenHanna
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:28:08 +0200
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Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:42:04 +0200: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
scribeva:

>On 2024-04-06 07:59:35 +0000, Ruud Harmsen said:
>
>> Sat, 6 Apr 2024 09:42:47 +0200: Clucker <cluck@cluck.cluck> 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.

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Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com