From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 13 17:40:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A2837B40D for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0043.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.43] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17If3h-0002CP-00; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:35:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3D093A24.C90113D8@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:34:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brett Glass , Ryan Thompson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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