Thank you for this, Kary:

> Does anybody in their right mind insist that enhanced _speech_ is
> desirable?  Somehow my _spoken_ thoughts are less meaningful
> because I'm too much of an old fart to walk around with a
> bull-horn, fuzz-box and reverb chamber?

<annual rant>People will say that enhanced text is better because
text is so inexpressive, compared to oral speech, and that it's so
much harder to identify humor or irony, or express feeling, so we
need smileys and 60-point pink type. Shakespeare and Swift and
Orwell and McPhee wouldn't think so.</annual rant>

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