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echo: english_tutor
to: Ardith Hinton
from: Ardith Hinton
date: 2021-11-25 01:36:00
subject: Jokes of the season

Hi, Ardith!  Recently you wrote in a message to Anton Shepelev:

AH>  I'm not at all concerned about lines which are shorter than
AH>  what you intended because I think that makes them easier for 
AH>  less fluent speakers of English to interpret. 

AH>  BTW... certain Fidonetters who are blind or visually impaired 
AH>  tend to use software which limits them to 40 lines. 


          What I meant was "40 characters per line", which I could easily have abbreviated.  OTOH I reckon Anton is smart enough to figure it out... [blush]. 




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