Signatures...

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 19:51:10 UTC 2010


Emil Payne wrote:
> It's a shame you don't have a third grade English education to go with that.
> 
> "Your" is a possessive noun.  "You're" is a contraction for "you are".
> 
> "High School" is two words.
> 
> The 30 line signature in question was plain text English writing with 
> names, and addresses, phone numbers and advertising.
> 
> More than half of those thirty lines were blank lines - id est - he 
> doubles and triple spaces almost everything.
> 
> Here is the original signature that was being complained about.
> 
>  > --
>  > Marcio H. Parreiras
>  >
>  > GNU/Linux Professional
>  >
>  > Tel.: (31)9632-0320
>  >
>  > Pedro Leopoldo - MG - Brasil
>  >
>  >
>  > *** As melhores soluções em Informática ***
>  >
>  >  - Monitoramento e filtragem de Internet -
>  >
>  >  - Servidores e Estações de Trabalho -
>  >
>  >  - Controladores de Rede -
>  >
>  >  - Sistemas Virtuais -
>  >
>  >
>  > "A caixa dizia: Requer MS Windows ou superior, então eu instalei 
> Debian/GNU
>  > Linux!"
>  > http://www.debian.org/index.pt.html
>  >
>  > "The box said: Requires MS Windows or better, then I installed Debian/GNU
>  > Linux!"
>  > http://www.debian.org/index.en.html
>  >
>  >
>  > Codificação de caracteres / Character encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
>  > .
>  >
> 
> Gee, I guess my I.Q. of 149 (Stanford-Binet scale)  is wrong because I 
> can not find any encryption in there at all. I guess I also "don't know 
> nothing" about encryption since they also don't look like junk to me 
> either.  Or  are you referring to Brazilian Portuguese as "encryption"?
> 
>  > Since you know nothing about encryption, those 30 lines look
>  > like useless junk. To a smart person they are the encrypted
>  > signature of that person.
> 
> 
> Emil
> 
	If this in fact is the place he found fault, even I without 
even much Spanish training can make sense of what is being 
said. Should he/she say it? That is another question.


73 Karl


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