DCML digest, Vol 1 #1208 - 5 msgs

[Eero-Pekka Halinen]

From: "Heino" <j.heino at kotiposti.net>

>Sarcasm is a very difficult thing when you're sending email or posting >to 
>a message board, since there is no visual or even audio connection >between 
>the persons that communicate (and would reveal it).

Damn right. I try to av_O_id using smileys, except in messages or posts
that "require" them, but still only in internet. Using them elsewhere 
reveals the lack of the writers skill and will to think of an alternative 
for that little face. And a good writer knows how he should make it clear to 
the reader that the text was written in a sarcastic sense.
      And mark that this message was not meant to offend anybody.


From: "Don Rosa" <donrosa at iglou.com>

Eero-Pekka Halinen wrote:
>>>>I have a feeling that someone here doesn't appreciate typos...

>Oh, please.
>In my many travels, in my daily e-mail correspondence with every >country 
>in Europe so extensive that it would boggle your imagination, >I constantly 
>make it abundantly clear, I constant go out of my way to >mention how much 
>I *admire* all the Europeans who speak and write more >than one language... 
>sometimes three or four. Me, who can barely speak >and write ONE. And I 
>constantly offer my compliments to the Europeans >who almost universally 
>speak and write *better* English than my >Kentucky neighbors. I make a 
>definite POINT of ALWAYS praising their >English. I write it in virtually 
>every e-mail I send to the many young >Euro fans who write to me daily, and 
>you'll hear me saying it >constantly in my Euro appearances. But I will 
>also make jokes if they >make a slip that comes out to mean something in 
>English quite >different than what they mean. They know that I can't speak 
>or write a >syllable of their language, so I know they'll have a
>sense of humor seeing as I could not POSSIBLY mean it in a critical >way. 
>Sigvald writes and speaks SUPERB English and he knows it! And no, >I refuse 
>to use smiley-face icons. I also don't laugh at my own jokes. >If y'can't 
>take a joke, I can't help ya'. Quite to the contrary --  I >DO appreciate 
>typos. I appreciate how funny they can be. Mine as >well. "My intentions 
>are to avid actions that will harm the >atmosphere"... I'm still 
>chuckling!)



I hear ya; boy, you're thorough. Well, maybe *I* was just being funny. And a 
giant smiley for you:



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