smilies

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon Feb 8 01:36:35 1999

At 10:11 AM 06-02-99 -0800, Sam Ismail wrote:

>Well, I used to absolutely hate the stupid things, and refused to use
>them, until I realized that yes, sometimes people ARE too stupid to know
>what is or isn't a joke.

It's even more important when the person sending the e-mail is into irony
and the receiver isn't, or if local expressions have different meanings in
different places (hint, Australian English differs from both English
English (that I learnt when I was young (about 3 or 4, English is not my
native tongue)) and American English (and all the other Englishes that exist)).

Note, I think I got all the nested brackets right, my lisp ain't what it
used to be :-)

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