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- From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.012754.12446@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:27:54 GMT
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- twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin):
- >It would seem to me to be impossible to *avoid* offending them, and
- >therefore a waste of one's time to try.
-
- I agree that there's not much point in bending over backwards to
- try to molify the Lost Causes, but there's a great deal of easily
- avoidable offense that people give by not adapting their style to
- the quirks of the medium.
-
- >>It's a commonplace that...language that's appropriate in one medium
- >>may be inappropriate in another (eg, written English should *not*
- >>generally be identical to spoken English)
- >
- >Sez who?
-
- :-)
-
- Well, *I* said it. How much commoner do you want?
-
- >People who engage in what passes for communication here have to
- >understand that we, collectively, form a brand-new culture, one
- >that has a life of its own. Not everyone is comfortable with its
- >manners and rituals as they've more or less evolved...
-
- I like it. But we needn't pretend that we aren't still learning
- what works and what doesn't.
-
- >Maybe we need a net anthropologist. Or sociologist. Or psychiatrist.
-
- I volunteer for the latter: I have a primary reference on Psychobabycraft.
- (The important thing is to get them when they're young enough.) Umm...
- do you have teeth?
-
- -----
- Dani Zweig
- dani@netcom.com
-
- "The best lack all conviction, while the worst
- Are full of passionate intensity." -- W.B. Yeats
-