[PRCo] Re: New Member Introduction

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

Howard:

Welcome to the list.  Eventually we will get around to discussing
streetcars.

Bob

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Derrick J Brashear [mailto:shadow at dementia.org] 
Sent:	Sunday, March 24, 2002 12:47 PM
To:	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject:	[PRCo] Re: New Member Introduction


On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Donald Galt wrote:

> 
> Did anybody else receive secret symbols in the midst of Howard's 
> message?
> 
> In particular, repeated instances of the couplet "âEUR" - that is to say, 
> for those who aren't reading it the same way as I, an "a" with a 
> circumflex followed by the Euro sign.

open-quote, close-quote, probably. it's what happens when you send a
message in one character set but your mailer claims another. The mailer
should be able to figure it out, but often they fail.

> Can't find my secret decoder ring. This may be something as 
> prosaic as an em-dash gone wrong, but just in case the Europeans 
> have a plot to infiltrate PRCo at dementia, let me warn you, lads, you 
> haven't a hope of blending in and passing as locals - not even if you 
> can spell Sheraden.

If I had european characters enabled, I'd throw an umlaut or an a-ring in
for good measure, but I can't.:-)

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Bob Rathke wrote:

> And, "Sheraden" is relatively easy.  Most locals can't even spell - nor
> pronounce - "Connequenessing".

That's ok, you spelled it wrong anyhow:-) More "o", less "e". I wonder if
the interurban's stops were spelled "correctly". It wouldn't be unusual
for a carrier and a town to disagree on spelling.

-D