Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:08:14 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020613140653.00d64340@localhost> 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>
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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
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