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Re: [OM] Email Language (Zero OM-content)

Subject: Re: [OM] Email Language (Zero OM-content)
From: Chris Barker <cbarker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 16:04:22 +0100

Soenke Jansen wrote:

> Hi Chris and others,
> IMHO language isn't as much a problem as tone here. I know I miss slight
> nuances in my mails and certainly a lot of nuances and allusions in
> other peoples mails just slip me by. But this can't be changed that
> easily and understandig comes with practice. Tone is a different matter
> though. Terms like 'ignorant', 'twit' and the like, used in heated
> discussions about frozen subjects, are asily understood and I would love
> people to use 'slight nuances' instead (even if they might escape us
> non-native speakers).
> ...

Soenke

Just so...a polite and amusing way of putting it.

Chris





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