[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > (snip) > > because the Nazis kept records of _everything_. They videotaped the > > concentration camps - they weren't ashamed of what they were doing. So > (snip) > > Videotaped? Riiiiigght. Tell me more about this alternate history > you come from. Was the earth invaded by 3 foot tall lizard-men > during WWII as well? > > -- Matt Grimaldi > > Sorry - filmed. Obviously videotape hadn't been invented yet. As soon as > I posted that I knew that it was the wrong term, but I assumed that anyone > would be able to figure out what I meant. > > Gautam
(sigh) My post had been meant as a joke, with a refence to a series of fun, if not terribly deep, books by Harry Turtledove, but your response turned it into something else entirely. This post shows you expect a kind of generosity, that we would know what you meant to say even when your choice of words might mean something else, and that we would change them to reflect that. You do not deserve this generosity. This kind of generosity requires that there be a light-hearted rapport and mutual respect in the dialogue, which you do not promote. For example, with the very post that you demand I edit your words for you as I read them, you insult me by implying that I'm too dumb to have known you meant "filmed." These are not the actions of someone interested in providing the netiquette that they expect of others. -- Matt Grimaldi
