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   Sump to Mike Easter   
   Re: DistroWatch Q&A: Advice for new Linu   
   01 Nov 25 23:00:29   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: sumpusent@outlook.com   
      
   On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 14:44:28 -0700, Mike Easter  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Then perhaps users of sarcasm should reduce their quality of levity so that   
   all can understand.   
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