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Re: UUID


  • Subject: Re: UUID
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:21:43 -0600
  • Thread-topic: UUID

Title: Re: UUID
On 01/31/2008 19:59 PM, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:

Notwithstanding any of the above: absent an established teasing relationship, there's just no way that "You didn't try X, did you?"  can come off as anything but condescending and just plain rude.

You’re kind of forgetting that for a LOT of people on this list, english is a second or even third language. That’s going to create situations where someone’s going to type something that sounds okay in their head, with all the inflections and other metadata, but looks rude in text, sans metadata. A rose is not a rose is not a rose.

--
"With over 50 cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market for itself."

commentary in Business Week magazine, 1968
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