On 16/04/2010 11:30 AM, Warp wrote:
> Stephen<mca### [at] aoldotcom>  wrote:
>> On 15/04/2010 9:47 PM, Warp wrote:
>>> Jim Holsenback<jho### [at] povrayorg>   wrote:
>>>> Warp wrote:
>>>>> Jim Holsenback<jho### [at] povrayorg>   wrote:
>>>>>> (thinking out loud) ... am i the only one who thinks that you can be
>>>>>> rather snide with some of your replies? have a cookie ... smile more
>>>>>> often. trust me it'll do wonders for your disposition.
>>>>>
>>>>>     You call it snide, I call it pragmatic.
>>>>>
>>>> I don't find anything pragmatic about the way you conduct yourself ...
>>>> Why don't we just do BOTH ourselves a favor and resign to stay out of
>>>> each others way. Deal?
>>>
>>>     Apparently my attempt at humor was completely lost.
>>>
>
>> Then why don't you put some smilies in your posts? We can't read your mind.
>
>    I feel like smilies are like explaining the joke.
>

No, they are letting people know that there is a joke. With the lack of 
inflection or body language in writing, it comes across as being rude 
and sometimes hurtful. Add that to the differences in humour across 
languages and even between different types of English it is highly 
recommended that people use smilies. :-D

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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