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Re: I missed the joke
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Re: I missed the joke
- From: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!BRADFORD.AC.UK!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!C.J.Fine>
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "NRLVAX::UMPAC::GILSON" at Dec 6, 91 8:18 am
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Sorry Bruce: no joke: I was strongly agreeing with you!
(This is a lovely example of extralinguistic interpretation. If
I had meant it as a joke I would/ought to have used zo'o - but we are
not used to expressing that sort of thing as words, so Bruce imagines
it's there anyway! - and to be fair, if I had meant it as a joke I
possibly would not have thought to put it in.)
Let that be a lesson to us all!
Colin