Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:24:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? Message-ID: <3D0937AA.48950BB5@mindspring.com> References: <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020612214125.02fa4dc0@localhost> <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020613140653.00d64340@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > 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 has just made a Shakespearian "aside" to the audience, as if the other players up on the stage with him can not hear him, simply because he has used the stage directions of: 1) Looking directly to the audience. 2) Put his right hand up, flat, thumb towards his body, index finger to the left of his mouth, and pinky toward the audience. This is a dramatic technique called a "stage whisper", very much like the one you are reading right now... Next, we shall learn about the "Deux Ex Machina" or "God From the Machine"... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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