On 12/16/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
No in response to a suggestion by you to make Africa the predestined continent I already put up a bid for bangkok. I treated you with respect I like to be treated back with respect it could be my lack of sleep but I am pretty pissed at SJ's answer....
Wow wow wow... please.
I think things have gotten a little out of hand here. But let me try and explain. I believe Sj was rather amazed and excited than critical at your proposal. And he adopted an artistic and "lunar" way of saying it. Which got, apparently, completely lost in translation. And he didn't realize how wrong you could take it. And you didn't realize that he didn't realize.
The never ending problem of not speaking the same language in the first place. Being a non-native myself, I think I understood where you could take it wrong. But I am sure it wasn't meant that way.
What you think, what you say, what I hear and what I understand... between what you think and what I understand, there can be so many interferences. Assume good faith is a good one in this case. Let the anger fly at first, and answer "huh????". Because, indeed, Sj's post was... "huh?" ;-). And Sj, for any lunar interventions, remember that some of us live on this earth and speak another tongue ;-)
Best,
Delphine PS. This said. Bangkok? WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!! :DDDD -- ~notafish