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|    Mike Easter to All    |
|    Re: DistroWatch Q&A: Advice for new Linu    |
|    01 Nov 25 14:44:28    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10       From: MikeE@ster.invalid              Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:       > Mike Easter wrote:       >       >> Ha! I like sarchasm :-)       >       > That must be the name for the gap between what the original speaker/writer       > meant, and what the listener/reader thought they meant ...              More specifically, the commonplace gap between the transmitter's       'attempt' to transmit irony or sarcasm, but somewhere along the way the       irony/sarcasm didn't register correctly on the receiver.              Then, the blame-game is on the transmitter, the medium, or the receiver;       or perhaps more than one of them.                     --       Mike Easter              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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