On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > I was tempted to say: "Then, if no protection from sun rays, 400+ people > are going to die, May it remain in your conscience" > > But I think that, once again, you will not understand. > > I think that the lack of understanding of ironies is a sign of social > decadence. It means that people are so obsessed with a particular thing > that they can not see the context, Anything against his little obsession > is taken as an attack. > > And it may be an attack, but not as fierce as he think. But because the > factual-obsessed lilliputian is not aware of the wider context, is > incapable to respond at the same level with some sarcasm. > > For example you could have ridiculed me with some other exageration and we > would have had a good time. But you prefer to throw at me the cold facts. > But this is boring and that was not the point!. of course I know it!. This > creates an inhumane and careless atmospher. And if lilliputians like that > reach some power, things may be not as innocuous and intrascendent as a > conversation between equals. >
No ridicule was intended. If offense took, then be it on your head. Seriously, your previous post did not come across as satire. It just came across as ill-informed. If satire was intended, there are ways of signalling it, without spoiling the effect. The usual one I've seen is to start subtly, and then increase the level of outrageousness to the point where nobody in the right mind will miss that its satire. Eg Swift's advocation of eating Irish children... Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
