Entirely possible. :-)
___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Michael Snow wikipedia@frontier.com wrote:
On 3/7/2013 8:19 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Can I ask that we not call people dumb and foolish? Argue the idea, not the person.
(And in this case, I think Jan-Bart agrees with you, so I'm not sure where that came from).
I thought it was meant ironically, hence the agreement. That, plus the liberal use of exclamation marks suggested it was over-the-top and not intended to be taken literally. I can understand how it might be confusing, though. The interpretation remains ambiguous at first, you have to get well into reading the message before it becomes more clear, and that can make it hard to overcome the emotional impact of those words at the beginning.
--Michael Snow
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