At 09:56 AM 10/18/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote: >Sandy Sandfort wrote: >> John Young wrote:
<snip> >A guide to you Pacific People. When us Atlantic People say something >with this little twitch in our voice (just listen - there - did you hear >it?) we mean the *exact* *opposite* of what we seem to be saying. And >when we use this sort of supercilious sneer (pay attention now, it is >very subtle) we mean both what we are apparently saying *and* its >opposite, simultaneously, the two held in tension in an unstable melange >of fractal meaning. Otherwise known as Cognitive Dissonance. Draw your own conclusions. Reese