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Long I (m)
IE is how BtN writes the English long I sound, as in the word "eye".Also, please don't abuse punctuation. Question marks don't like working together, and you really only need one question mark to ask a question. You certainly don't need to use 10!

Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From an unknown badfic.Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
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I don't understand is that hurting you?
Or... Is it a "Law" on this message board?
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It hurts me because to see innocent, helpless punctuation misused and abused, yes. Both for the punctuation's sake and the sake of my inner punctuation Nazi.EDIT: Hit the "send" button too soon... Also, overusing and/or misusing punctuation tends to make you look like an immature, hyperactive 12-year-old. And we prefer our posters to be mature and reasonably calm, whatever their chronological age may be.There is no specific rule against misusing punctuation, but there is a rule about legibility of posts and avoiding rampant netspeak: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/help.php?board=gen#rules. You haven't broken that rule though, at least not imo.
Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From an unknown badfic.Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.

This message was edited 6/22/2005, 8:38 PM

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