On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:30:25AM +0000, Mark Flacy wrote: > On 2005.12.05 10:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry, I keep forgetting there are people in this world who didn't > > grow up watching Bugs Bunny. That was a joke. > > > >And some people have forgotten how to do proper sarcastic remarks in > >email which lacks the subtiltiies of normal speech. > > When someone drops into written dialect as Stephen did, you should > consider that he did it for effect.
I'm so used to seeing incompetent use of English around here by now that my brain just autocorrects this stuff before I read it. If you want to get my attention then write it backwards or in ancient hebrew or something. Personally, I always preferred to denote sarcasm by making it too absurd to believe. Of course, some people are too stupid even to notice that, but communication with them is probably impossible anyway. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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