From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 3 10:10:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C066037BB64 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:10:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA47906; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:10:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:10:31 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Freddie Cash Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions In-Reply-To: <3937967F.17328.A70476@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Freddie Cash wrote: : :Ugh! I can't stand it when people use the curled-fingers "" to show :sarcasm. Unless they are very young, it makes them look very silly. ::-) Just emphasize / sarcastify your comment using tone/expression. Of course, the smiley is a well-respected stylistic device, that never implies the author is worried that his messsage is unclear. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message