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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
> >
> > (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
> <snip>
>
> 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
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 I had seen the
two possibilities when reading your thank you to Rose. Not that you have ever
used sarcasm before...
Jude
FUT o-t.debate (cause I don't feel this thread is about .admin anymore)
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