Chris, Chris Pugh wrote: > Pablo, > > 2009/11/1 Pablo Rodríguez <[email protected]>: >> Chris Pugh wrote: >>> I didn't say you had done anything 'wrong' in particular. Simply >>> guilty of having a very tic moment! ;o) >> ic' = tongue in che >> Chris, I apologize for being rude in my previous reply (I'm afraid I >> don't understand what a 'tic moment' might be). > > Thank you. However, you have nothing to apologise for. In fact, it was > I who was apologising to you. > > tic = tongue in cheek > tfic = tongue firmly in cheek > > are two somethings I am prone to ( and also guilty of ) more than I care to > mention. tic comments often get misunderstood, even with the emoticons, > i.e. ;o), in place, and thus win me a lot of 'enemies'! ;o) > > Anyway, > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek > > for a somewhat lengthy explanation!
Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know about tongue-in-cheek. >>> That said, we see things quite differently, as do most programmers ( >>> not that I consider myself to be one that is )). Thus I'm glad to see you >>> have finally lost that excess code! > >> All my questions to the list are out of my ignorance. I ask because I >> don't know. I realized my error after having asked to the list (and >> thinking what could have gone wrong). At first, I thought that the issue >> was a different one that I had described before. > > If I were to say 'Ignorance is not one of your best assets, Pablo' I'd be > being > subtly 'tfic' again! Maybe you will understand me this time? I understand that your comment is meant somehow ironically. My mistake was to take those comments seriously. Following in next replies, Pablo
