Danke, Herr Ludwig.
Dies geflammen krieg ist tot!
Thanks, Ludwig (for the translation).
This flame-war is dead (I think that is what I said).

Having now revealed the full extent of my 'deutsch', and my ignorance, I suppose I should try and get back on topic.

This little diversion does illuminate the extent of the profound irritation arising out of the inability to make edits to a post. One of my own from another thread: "Well, Peter Stanley, you're the historian. I given you my take on it. ...". Where is the "'ve"? I'm sure I put it there. But it ain't! Grrrrr.

I know of course that edits (exclusive to the poster) can be done, complete with a footnote stating when, accompanied if necessary with a brief explanation - "grammar", "spelling", etc.

I can understand OLO not wanting any alterations post posting, especially in an opinion forum. Too many "you said ...", "I did not ...", "did", "did'nt", and so on and so forth otherwise. But could we perhaps have a strike-through retention of the original, with edits in a different coloured text? That way, if edits were more than the adding of punctuation, the extent of the alteration would be completely transparent to all.

I don't know how you would reconcile edits of text with the word limit, though. (Especially with some, nay, nearly all of my posts, for example, being right up against the stops.)

Don't feel obliged to answer this Ludwig, but might you have an ancestor named Ferdinand?

Yes, piddling little errors in your posts can be extremely irritating, as I have made patently clear in early posts on this thread. Even a single letter out of place can be enraging!

Being able to make edits by crossing out the error and inserting a change in red, within a short time after posting, would be wonderful.

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Ahh, I presume you are referring to meinen gveat gveat großen uncle Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, botaniker extrraorrdinaire!....who has many many Australian plants named after him?

BTW thanks Forrest for that little diversion off topic. It was very interesting and fun.

You Godwinista!!

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One of the fundamental forum rules is to stay on topic. But it is so poorly adhered to…. and probably for the better!! It is good to have the expression of stuff that is entirely unrelated to the topic of the thread….to a limited extent, isn’t it?

It certainly seems to have been the case on this thread and on the ‘Why did you choose your pseudonym’ thread http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2044

So then, if this rule is not going to be adhered to and not going to be policed, it surely has to be reassessed.

One of my major themes on this forum is the rule of law, and the offence that I take at the extent to which the law as written is not observed or policed. This creates the awful dilemma of both wanting to uphold the principle of law but to also role with the flow and not be put at a disadvantage by observing rules that most others don’t observe...and don't get punished for.

Ludwig,

Genusflecting ever so slightly to the Forum rules, I specifically confirm that it was to the late great Baron Ferdinand von Mueller that I was alluding in my last post. (Dayyum, ayun eyxtra eyuss iyun the veyry firyust wor-yud!) So pleased to know you are related. For some reason the name Ripley springs to mind.

Now, at the risk of a little cross-pollination of threads, I just can't restrain myself from observing with respect to the pseudonymia group that "by gum, he hasn't spotted it" yet in my last post there, although perhaps you have just run out of posts. I'll wait with baited breath. Nothing is so uncertain, after all, as death and taxa.

I'll conclude by wishing rstuart "Happy Hundredth Post" to his thread. Just so it stays on topic, and as cross-threading is contemporarily topical with respect to recent posts, I will observe with respect to the Ubuntu fora that sometimes posts are moved by forum administrators to what are considered more appropriate threads, or indeed other sub-fora. When this happens a "moved to" marker is inserted in the thread where the post was originally, even though perhaps inappropriately, posted. I don't know whether such a system would have any relevance for OLO, it may well not, but I just thought I would throw the idea in for, as I have already admitted, the sake of having something to say (for the hundredth time).

So far as I can see back in the Technical Support category (451 days ago), it's the first thread to crack the ton.

GrahamY and/or SusanP should have some interesting times if they read it.

“… but to also role with the flow…”…… “role”?.......ROLE??!!??!!

I did NOT write that!!

Eeeaaaarrrgh.

Pisse-hintern poo scheiße bumst bälle!! Christus alles bloomin mächtiges!

I noticed in a general thread just started at

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2063

that double quotes have at last made it into the title.

Has that problem now been fixed?