Sunday, July 20, 2008

Re: [asterisk-biz] Egypt + Africa Numbers Wanted

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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