[asterisk-biz] Egypt + Africa Numbers Wanted

Alex Balashov abalashov at evaristesys.com
Sun Jul 20 02:19:40 CDT 2008


Hey Rehan,

Having witnessed a consistent orthographic style and syntax associated 
with your posts for many months, I was wondering if the following 
tendencies are accounted for by some sort of marketing and/or brand 
differentiation effort of which I am unaware:

Rehan Allah Wala wrote:

> Dear All,

Why do you capitalise "all" here?

> Do you know any one who does termination business in Africa , Egypt, Morroco , Algeria etc?

Why do you prefix spaces to your commas - e.g. "Africa , Egypt" vs. 
"Africa, Egypt?"

> We can pay a monthly fixed rent for the incoming calls on the same numbers, using the 
> same sim, same switch, all they have to do is when a call comes in, send it to us.

There is a comma splices here[1].

> Any one ?

Why is there a space prior to the question mark?

And why is Muneeb Iqbal's name (who is copied on this posting) listed in 
the Cc: header as "muneeb Iqbal" (first name capitalised, last name not).

I'm not picking on your English, actually -- on the contrary, I ask 
because your style is very internally consistent and your chosen 
stylistic devices, if that's what they are, very predictable.  Thus, 
they appear to have the deliberate qualities of a system of writing, 
albeit different from that to which we are habitually accustomed.  I am 
curious if there is some business-level purpose underlying this.

Cheers,

-- Alex


[1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice

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