Entirely possible. :-)
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Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)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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