[Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/11/7  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
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> Isn't it however Michael true that a plain text message conveys little to no "tone"
> I could say the above sentence with anger, with sarcasm, with hope and without emotion at all.
> You cannot tell how I'm inflecting it, simply by the words.
> Sometimes or even most-times people will add the tone.
> Some people's manner of address is direct, and that is read, in an email, by some, as a form of caustic speech I suppose.  That doesn't however mean that that is the way it was intended to be understood.

Indeed. My standard advice for people on how to interpret my
text-based messages is this: If in doubt, I don't mean any offence. If
I want to offend you, I will leave you in no doubt.