Ken Hornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let me give you a recent example.
David Craig just sent a message
continuing a barb by Barry Holland regarding the misspelling of the
word "sharing" (it was spelled as "shearing" in the original note).
Barry included a smiley face, and David continued the sheep joke. All
in good fun, and if I had been the recipient of that I would have
chuckled a bit. I've done similar things like that to other people,
and I consider it all within the bounds of fair play.
I went back and read the original note that started the data versus
datum thread, and it lacked any of those features. There was no humor,
no smiley face, nothing to take the bite out of the sting. What it
ended up being was kind of rude response I would have expected from
one of my fellow Americans.
I've glad that several people have chimed in saying, "Hey, we do welcome
all sorts of boaters". I imagine the owners are more dedicated and that's
why they post more; that is certainly understandable, but it's nice to
hear that renters and hopeful renters are welcome as well.
--Ken
Phew! Well said Ken [& Mike Stevens] for appreciating my [& others] attempts @
humour--mostly due to typos--but sometimes just bad spelling! [:-))]
**so I feel I am reasonably
well acquainted with their humor.**
Or, if you're American, you suffer from a lack of uuu's {as above} :-))
As someone once said " It takes more muscles to frown than to smile--so why
frown?"
Incidentally, has *anyone* ever managed to teach a computer to default to an
English dictionary? Everyone that I know has always moaned that they 'go
through the motions' but their computer always defaults to American. Is this
just because Bill Gates comes from the land of the free??
Barry
Nb lawksamercy
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