Hey jt, how much effort does it take to make all of those smilies and bolds and underlines and italics that are so customary to your posts? :

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A LOT less time than composing the actual .TXT, as a matter of fact!

I'm a visual thinker, the formatting & emoticons help me in translating what I want to say from my native language (images) into my second language (American English) and don't even ASK about how I did trying to pick up Foreign Languages!

I spend a lot of time in preview mode in an attempt to make my meaning clear and concise. The rest of the time I just pound away at the KBD . . .

. . . producing nothing but indecipherable drivel! [)] ]'>