Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . . (UNCL...

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

Hm. It's not this way on the ADS-L archives, or when I read my own posts.  My
posts have always looked like this? What to do?
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In a message dated 8/16/2007 10:31:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL writes:

Barry  Popik's emails are near unreadable for this reason.  I used to
think  it had something to do with the fact that his is an AOL email
account, but  now I'm not sure.

I post from a government account.  If I'm  directly hooked to the LAN
where I work, using MS Outlook, mine come out  pretty clear.  If I'm on
another internet connection, I have to use a  web-based client, and mine
show up with these extraneous characters.   I can't make sense of them by
looking up their ASCII values, even if I  assume that they are in
hexadecimal rather than  decimal.




> ---------------------- Information from the  mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:     American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>  Poster:       Beverly Flanigan  <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Watching TV  delays infant language, but
> don't touch that dial
>     . . .
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>
> Just a technical question:  Lately  Dennis's mailings (and
> some others too) come to me with =20, =92,  etc., as below.
> Why is this, and what can I do to get them  "clean"?






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