That will go very nicely with my other geek awards. :)

Chris,

I'm glad to have ignited a tiny flame of annoyance and it would be a terrible shame to see this sub-sub-thread go away. It seems like you have sufficient ire bubbling under: so how about David's idea of a sticky dedicated to proper English like-wot-she-is-spoke? Gentle, informative and not at all condescending, of course.

I'm far from sure it would make any difference -- but at least we'd be able to vent.

Onward indeed!

Of course all the while being respectful of those contributors to the forums for whom English is a second (or third or fourth) language...

No problem with folks that English is not the primary language. It's the folks that English IS the first language that frankly drives me batty with mis-spellings that honestly just shouldn't be.
Just a grumpy old man ventin'! ;-)

Don't get me wrong Don, I agree wholeheartedly BUT before the grammar police go on a wild were/where/we're hunt, I just wanted to remind people that this forum draws a large crowd from outside of North America.

For example: my pet peeve is "orientated". As discussed elsewhere, it turns out that the British version is in fact "orientated" whilst the North American is "oriented".

I'll make sure to notate that. Oh, sorry, "note."

Either is much better than "notationed"... <tongue planted firmly in cheek>

Duly notationated.

To those who object to the removal of the quote function of the last post, I just discovered that if you click on the "multiquote" button just to the right of "reply", then click "reply", it lets you quote the last post.

I just did this now as a test.

This seems to be the best of both worlds, as it cuts down on needless quoting, but lets those who want to quote the last post do so by taking an extra step.

Much better! I think this is a GREAT workaround and SHOULD minimize the needless quoting of long messages.

Great, looks like this deal had a happy ending. Thanks all,