On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Dave Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> Poe's law anyone? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Poe%27s_law<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law> >> > > Yeah, yeah. If Messrs Morgan, Poe, and Schwarz didn't waste so much time > on the internet, they'd have no problem. Recognizing written satire is > trivial, a matter easily grasped even by very small children, like the > well-known logical rule that a double positive statement always makes a > negative. > > If detection were really so difficult, satirical practitioners would have > to "go off the rails" at some point in a faint hope of distinguishing > themselves from the genuine kooks, and what writer has attempted that? Mused upon what you've written, Dave, found that I am in complete agreement, esp. "waste so much time on the internet". So...not commenting, no, sir!
