As I say, you do have to try reading things in your own voice.How you can read the sentences: 'Unless of course you are Scottish, in which case keep bottling it up. It's for the best.' in a serious tone is, to be frank, a little beyond me.
It probably explains why you think I am rude though.
I am not going to stop being a dick though, it is kind of what b3ta is for. I was being enough of a dick to get banned before you even found us.
(It probably explains why you think I am rude though.
I am not going to stop being a dick though, it is kind of what b3ta is for. I was being enough of a dick to get banned before you even found us.
LordManley twitter.com/LordManley,
Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:20,
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I didn't say you should stop it.But you shouldn't be so surprised when people are dicks to you in return.
I think my interpretation of that sentence was quite accurate. I think your words might have been the problem there.
I also think that you are slightly deluded about your ability to convey "tone" in your writing. If I read it in my own voice, whether in a neutral, angry, happy, cheeky, surprised or disgusted tone, the meaning remains the same. As we were not currently engaged in a particularly friendly discourse, I understood the tone to be negative, irrelevant and pathetic, rather than jokey, cheeky, flirtatious, or whatever it was supposed to be.
Anyway, that's me. It was a fairly interesting discussion.
(I think my interpretation of that sentence was quite accurate. I think your words might have been the problem there.
I also think that you are slightly deluded about your ability to convey "tone" in your writing. If I read it in my own voice, whether in a neutral, angry, happy, cheeky, surprised or disgusted tone, the meaning remains the same. As we were not currently engaged in a particularly friendly discourse, I understood the tone to be negative, irrelevant and pathetic, rather than jokey, cheeky, flirtatious, or whatever it was supposed to be.
Anyway, that's me. It was a fairly interesting discussion.
drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:33,
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It's not so much my ability to convey tone, as the subject.Maybe it is just that I cannot imagine ever saying something that vitriolic seriously. I guess I am just nicer than some people you know.
( LordManley twitter.com/LordManley,
Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:37,
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