Entirely possible. :-) ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> wrote: > On 3/7/2013 8:19 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > >> Can I ask that we not call people dumb and foolish? Argue the idea, not >> the person. >> >> (And in this case, I think Jan-Bart agrees with you, so I'm not sure where >> that came from). >> > I thought it was meant ironically, hence the agreement. That, plus the > liberal use of exclamation marks suggested it was over-the-top and not > intended to be taken literally. I can understand how it might be confusing, > though. The interpretation remains ambiguous at first, you have to get well > into reading the message before it becomes more clear, and that can make it > hard to overcome the emotional impact of those words at the beginning. > > --Michael Snow > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
