Ah, of course. A made-up word. Accepted term is "facetiousness", which is clumsy but at least commonly understandable.
On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 9:37 AM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > "Are you being facetious?", in other words. Facetism (which is how I > spell "fa-SEE-shiz-m") is closely related to sarcasm, except the tone is > serious; the hearer is expected to understand that the intent is not. > > Also, I suppose, sarcasm usually has an element of hostility in it; > facetism often doesn't. At least that's how I distinguish the two. > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their > disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites....Society cannot > exist unless a controling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, > and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is > ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate > minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. -Edmund Burke, > 1791 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of zMan > Sent: Saturday, November 6, 2021 18:37 > > "facetism"?? fetishism? fascism? fetishist fascism? (is that last one > redundant?) > > --- On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:45 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I can't tell, Colin: Is this facetism? Some months ago, or maybe a > > year, I found I was no longer able to access the on-line HTMLs; I had > > to content myself with downloaded PDFs (and hope that I'd remember to > > download the updates as often as necessary). It is nice, I agree, to > > know that the documentation I've remembered to download is at my > > fingertips even when my internet connection is down. Not so great to > > know that I can't look up something new during that time. And I > > really liked the HTML search function; the analogue in PDFs isn't as > useful. > > > > I supposed that PDF downloads are the only option, nowadays. Are you > > saying the on-line HTMLs are still available somewhere? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Colin Paice > > Sent: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:03 > > > > I find the IBM Doc site very slow (10 seconds to get into it) - not a > good > > advertisement for IBM servers. (most of the time "scripting") > > I hope they provide PDF's rather than just web pages. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
