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now i'm even more bemused.
i can't think of any obscure anglicisms in any of that,
let alone any rude ones.  he expressed a lack of a specific point
of contact about inferno, and i gave him three.
overgenerous if anything, if you ask me.

still, as Dan C observes and Stoppard amusingly demonstrated in
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (taking an idea from a discussion by Wittgenstein)
the interpretation of words can indeed be non-trivial.
Cutlery.


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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010308180050.5925S-100000@einstein.ssz.com> you write:
>
>I didn't 'insult' anyone.

Your tone was a little strong, and could be interpreted as insulting.

Charles Forsyth has a tendancy to say things in what is, I imagine, a
rather ``British'' way.  To our untrained and (mostly) American eyes
and ears, this might come across as rude, but I don't think it's meant
that way; I'd guess that it's just a cultural difference.

In other words, I think you're taking exception to something which is
entirely innocent.

>> have you considered a smaller sig?
>
>Have you considered suicide?

That's just uncalled for.  Honestly, your sig is pretty long (whatever
happened to 4 lines as the rule of thumb for max length?), and
statements like these just reduce your credibility.

	- Dan C.

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