Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/03/11:59:28
Mike,
At 07:37 2002-12-03, you wrote:
>Dear fellow hackers,
>
>...
>
>Silly me in thinking that something positive would come from making
>sarcastic jibes, it looks like I am not making any friends with my
>statements.
Yes, it is silly. The ability to convey sarcasm in print (absent facial and
vocal cues) is a rhetorical skill possessed by relatively few people. Even
if you successfully conveyed sarcasm, which you did not, I'm not sure what
positive outcome you expected. Perhaps a smirk on cynical readers' lips?
>...
>
>Please accept my apologies, and I will try and read the mailling list
>some more, maybe even make a cygwin-gcc faq if there is none yet.
>
>Mike
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
Randy
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