From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 13 13:10:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D71237B401 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10277; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:10:23 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook is dangerous and makes your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020613140653.00d64340@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:08:14 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan , Ryan Thompson From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020613163826.A1543@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020612214125.02fa4dc0@localhost> <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:38 AM 6/13/2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > ``I cringe when I see them,'' says the movie critic Roger Ebert, a > hatitue of CompuServe, interviewed via e-mail. On the other hand, he > adds, ``smileys might be a real help for today's students, raised on > TV and unskilled at spotting irony without a laugh track.'' Ebert fails to recognize that what the smiley is substituting for is intonation, which (in most cultures) is what disambiguates irony. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message