Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: How do you see the other person? Message-ID: <2005@peora.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 14:38:16 EST Article-I.D.: peora.2005 Posted: Fri Mar 7 14:38:16 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 23:19:30 EST References: <826@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk> <856@pucc-j> Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Orlando, Fl Lines: 29 > We don't see each other. True, we cannot look at someones expression and > guess at whether they are being sarcastic. ... Here, if you are being > sarcastic you MUST say so if people are to believe you ... Oddly enough, people have been writing things down where people who read them couldn't see their faces for centuries. In the olden days, it was a characteristic that distinguished people who were moderately "enlightened" from those that weren't, as to whether or not you could tell when someone meant something they had written literally and when they didn't. Some writers have written whole novels that, to this day, the majority of people completely misinterpret; look, for example, at Orwell's _1984_, which a lot of people think was about the future, "sometime around 1984". So what makes communication here different? Maybe mostly that if you don't make it clear what you mean, lots of people will clog the net insulting each other over what they thought you meant. So nowadays we write :-) all the time; and to express enlightenment we make reference to a currently unpopular political regime instead. I guess times have changed. -- UUCP: Ofc: jer@peora.UUCP Home: jer@jerpc.CCUR.UUCP CCUR DNS: peora, pesnta US Mail: MS 795; CONCURRENT Computer Corp. SDC; (A Perkin-Elmer Company) 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 LOTD(6)=B ---------------------- Amusing error message explaining reason for some returned mail recently: > 554 xxxxxx.xxxxxx.ATT.UUCP!xxx... Unknown domain address: Not a typewriter (The above message is true... only the names have been changed...)