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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.terms, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
> > > Thank you, Rose, for taking the time to dig up the links to all of these
> > > posts... it was very thoughtful to put them in one place for folks to
> > > look at.
> >
> > I'll second that.
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> (Responding to my own post.) YIKES -- it just occurred to me that what I
> wrote above might be mistaken as a condemnation of what Rose did. On the
> contrary, I actually meant it as a _complement_ to Rose. I thanked Rose
> this morning via private email for taking the time to dig up all that old
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I'm confused here, I sincerely meant my lead as a thank you to Rose, and I
took your "I'll second that" as just that, an agreement and your own thanks
as well. What am I missing here? Why would you think anyone would mistake
what you said as anything else?
There are too many wheels within wheels here, I'm starting to think.
Subtlety is not one of my strong suits. Can someone explain?
++Lar
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| (...) writes: (...) Lar, That may be because you have the ability to come off as sarcastic even when you might be sincere. Todd first took it as sincerity then after re-reading he took it as sarcasm. Perhaps your diction was a little too vague, even (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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