Stef,

I think it is less your english than email.  Email is very bad at 
communicating inflections.  The inflections on what get said make a 
huge difference in communicating the subtile meaning of works, and are 
critical to irony, teasing, and other forms of modifying the intent of 
words.  Keep up the good work, but leave the inflections to times when 
you can get them across.

Michael


On Dec 21, 2004, at 1:48 AM, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:

> Doug Way wrote:
>> On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
>>> Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hey goran, no offend intended, but reading this exchange makes me 
>>>>> feel that you should resign as a Guide. or what is a Guide then ? 
>>>>> please read again your own words, and I expect you will find you 
>>>>> were a bit too far here :)
>>>>>
>>>> Cool down please, and do the same thing with your words.
>>>
>>>
>>> what's wrong with my words ? as I said (with a typo), no offense 
>>> intended. my words simply reflect my feelings, and those are not bad 
>>> feelings toward anyone. I have the highest respect for everyone on 
>>> this list. don't you allow criticism ?
>> Even with "no offense intended", saying that you think someone should 
>> resign is still a somewhat ridiculous thing to say, given that you're 
>> just arguing about general direction strategies.  Although I see that 
>> you added a ":)" for safe measure.
>
> we are cultivating nonsense. my message precisely meant exactly what 
> you say here. and the smiley is not here to protect me, but because I 
> was joking in my resign proposal: just wanted to show Göran that he 
> was basically saying that you need no Guide for squeak development. He 
> is a Guide. So I thought "ah, ah" let's joke. ok, you can be sure I 
> won't do it any more. obviously I do not how how to express myself in 
> english well enough to do such risky things.
>
>
> Stef
>
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