Re: translation needed
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Friday, October 22, 1999, 19:50 |
|---|
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Patrick Dunn wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Roland Hoensch wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hmm a non linguist proclaiming to know what is language, and an art
> > > > god who claims to know what is and what isnt art. I wonder, do your
> > > > friends think you are a know it all?
> > >
> > > To assume makes an ass out of you and me. This man has no friends,
> > > obviously. ;)
> >
> > Yes, dear Patrick. You are indeed a complete ass--that much is
> > obvious. Now where, pray tell, in the quoted message does the
> > word "assume" actually appear?
> >
> > And what on earth are you babbling on about? Your note is a sorry excuse
> > even for the mere waste of bandwidth that it is.
>
> Actually, I was agreeing with you, hence the emoticon. You assumed he had
> friends. Sorry. I'll try never to use humor again, because obviously
> some people are impaired.
This really kind of chaffes, to tell the truth. Instead of asking what my
obviously confusing message (I know where I went wrong, after a little
thought: the saying "to assume makes an ass out of you and me" is a play
on the spelling of assume ass-u-me, something a nonnative speaker of
English -- or even many native speakers -- might not understand right
away, and if you're not a native speaker of English, that explains it) you
went off immediately into a flame. For some reason I tend to draw this
kind of fire -- even when I qualify myself with emoticons up the wazoo.
Social defect, I guess, or perhaps I rely too heavily on intonation to
point up my irony in speech.
I really have no intention -- no desire! -- to get into a flame war.
They're childish, and I refuse to play, so let's be nice to each other, if
we can. You mistook my meaning (as it wasn't directed at you being
friendless, but the conlangophobe) and my feelings of being imposed upon
by your misunderstanding and foolish. So let's play nice.
\