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Re: Yes I Know

David Trimboli ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Thanks.   There is a pretty raw effect on people's nerves from the mailing
> list-style of communication.   I have gotten an answer, which you
> apparently haven't read; you are writing with frustration in your style,
> like almost everybody else here.

Am I? I think you're reading others' messages' tones into mine. I saw 
where your misunderstanding was and tried to give a clear explanation of 
the difference. I didn't receive the other answer to this until 
afterward; sometimes list mail arrives out of sequence.

> If this is what one has to put up with
> everywhere one goes here, I might not make it... but apparently that is
> what is wanted?   It is definitely the case that I have never in my life
> encountered a group of people less able to speak civilly...

Then you obviously haven't socialized much on the Internet!

It is most certainly true that online communication has its own style. 
You must be careful not to read the wrong connotations into things. This 
is, unfortunately, very easy to do. As many people here know, I am far 
from the most capable of transmitting the proper tone through my messages.

Believe me, there are groups on the Internet that makes this list look 
like a well-mannered Victorian tea party!

 > and you want to translate the Bible?
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
> ***********
> 
> 
> On Tue, September 30, 2008 5:36 pm, David Trimboli wrote:
>> ghunchu'wI' wrote:
>>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. wrote:
>>>
>>>> As the third or fourth email I just got from Steven Boozer is signed
>>>> Voragh Ca Non The Master of the Klingons, let me ask you what that
>>>> means,
>>>> if it does not mean the Master of the Klingons.
>>> You are *still* misreading it!  Look at it again.  It says "Voragh",
>>> followed on the next line by "Ca'Non Master of the Klingons".  It
>>> means what it says.  What is says is not the same thing as what you
>>> think it says.
>> Christopher is misunderstanding Ca'Non as direct address. He's thinking
>> "Ca'Non, Master of the Klingons" instead of "Voragh, Ca'Non Master of
>> the Klingons."
>>
>> Christopher, Voragh is calling himself a "Ca'Non Master." He has already
>> explained the joke.



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