Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:11:31 -0400 From: "Tommie \"TJ\" Fitzgerald, Jr." <mercury12@myrealbox.com> To: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? Message-ID: <000201c21344$58776a00$0201a8c0@tjsbox> References: <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020612214125.02fa4dc0@localhost> <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <20020613163826.A1543@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20020613140653.00d64340@localhost> <20020613223435.A23313@lpt.ens.fr> <3D093A24.C90113D8@mindspring.com>
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I never knew smileys could cause such controversy! (aside) I wonder what would happen if they knew my PC likes to dress up as a Mac and hang out on the corner at night..... yes, that was a joke Tommie F ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>; "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>; <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:34 PM Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > > > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > You forget that written language existed for millennia before smileys > > became widespread. Also, irony isn't the same thing as humour. I > > think a smiley is particularly inappropriate for true irony or > > sarcasm, which is often meant to be cutting or insulting. If it > > wasn't meant to be cutting, the writer should make sure it doesn't > > read that way in the first place, rather than tack on a smiley as an > > afterthought... > > I tend to use smileys so that non-English speakers do not become > unnecessarily offended when humor was intended, but the subtlety > of the humor will not translate well, or even for native English > speakers, when the humor is above average complexity, e.g. as in > a triple or quadruple entendre, or when something like the right > justification of the written text is meant to convey some covert > message to the clever reader. > > 8-). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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