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Re: Floats [message #47968 is a reply to message #47862]

Thu, 09 March 2006 13:10

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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David Fanning wrote:
> I find if you are going for irony you have to put a "yeah" or
> an "uh" in the sentence. At the very least, you have to
> punctuate with a "!?". It's an art, more than a science. :-)

It is sometimes said that Americans don't do irony. This is demonstrably
false (just listen to any sitcom for 5 minutes--irony flying around the
room). What they don't do is subtlety.

Oops, I forgot ... :-)

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Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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