Damn...

[lederhosen]

Just learned via mordwen that Aveline (abiuro), who I knew through SCA around ten years back, had a brain aneurysm last week on her 39th birthday, and died this morning. I didn't know her well enough to claim to have been a friend, but I liked her a lot. She was the only person I've seen manage to run a large SCA event without any major drama, and she was one of those vital people who bring the fun with them. ozgenre has posted his memories of her here.

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[sandypawozbun.livejournal.com]

And the grammarwhores community has gone to town on one of the emails about Aveline losing 'conciseness'. I used to think they were a funny bunch of people. Laughing about someone dying because of the incorrect spelling of the email bringing news of it is not my idea of cool. :(

Not that I knew Aveline, but I'm hormonal and sensitive to this type of thing at the moment.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Gah. That's pretty pathetic... and technically, it's not even a grammar issue.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

...any idea which mailing list they got it from? I'd be tempted to pass that link on to the list mod; at the least, they might want to warn list members that there are arseholes among them.

[sandypawozbun.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. As you have no doubt seen for yourself, via the link http://community.livejournal.com/grammar_whores/3957193.html?nc=15 the original poster doesn't mention which list it came from.

[fred-bear.livejournal.com]

They've removed the post thankfully.