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<p>[quote user="andrechapelon"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">bnsf1</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">andrechapelon</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>Ironic, isn't it, that most of the verbiage on this page has little to do with the original post? </p> <p>Andre</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Ironic or not, it wouldn't have happened if not for the unwarranted criticism leveled against the OP.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Actually, I also prefer questions that are written in full sentences and thus show a modicum of respect toward the target audience. The only reason I even bothered to comment on the MT-4 was as a counterpoint to a reply by someone else. Otherwise, I was disinclined to respond to the OP.</p> <p>I would have worded it somewhat differently, but I agree with Sir Madog. </p> <p>Andre</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p> </p> <p>Not to drag this out to the point of stupidity, but I really don't understand this concern over a question posed in short form vs full sentences.</p> <p>It would seem to me, and I assume it does to the people who took the time to reply, that the point is that the question is understood.</p> <p>Whether or not that's accomplished in a couple of lines or by stretching it out through full sentences is something to be decided by the OP.</p> <p>If the fact that it's done in a shorter form is offensive to you or anyone else is obvisously a personal matter.</p> <p>But, I would suggest that if you do take offence to questions or comments written in this style, you take the most obvious course of action.</p> <p>Don't reply.</p> <p> </p>
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