Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010

However, I think following AEU may reach some worthwhile posters who
seem to not post to AUE.  Also the signal-to-noise ratio may be higher
in AEU than in AUE.  But I haven't been reading either group much in
the past year or so, so my impression may not be up-to-date.

By the way, in case anyone's interested, I've finally--through a
determined effort--located the place in my newsreader where the
persona defaulted to Sydney Sorenson.  I've been changing it manually
when I've thought about it, but I've too often forgotten.  I've
changed the default, so it shouldn't happen anymore.

(If this posting says it's from Sydney Sorenson, will that be an
illustration of Skitt's Law?)

I find the posters here more interesting than in AEU.

On 25 Feb 2010, Peter Moylan wrote

Indeed.  FWIW, I've finally started killing all threads with that
crosspost.  

Originally, I hoped to learn something from the crossposts, but
since I'm not very interested in what appears to be the scientific
side of linguistics, I have yet to see anything even remotely
useful added to discussions of usage from that group.

(Although it may or may not be typical of sci.lang, there also
seems to be a lot yah-boo-sucks stuff from that side -- and since
I'm not 12 years old any more, that doesn't really appeal very
much.)

That's cruel, really cruel.  You don't do things like that to someone
of Bob's age.