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Re: A Real puzzler

"Robert Holmgren"  wrote:

> The graphical emoticons, impossible to ignore, are soooo stupid,
> and usually follow a particularly labored attempt to be
> humorous. What's wrong with nuance, sarcasm, irony, in plain
> text?

Nothing at all; I'm fully with you there. In fact, I think that the
remark in M.W.'s message could have easily dispensed with the markers,
and still have come across as a good-natured rib. Heck, he even
continued with "Seriously, ..."

Wolfgang "r u sirius" Bechstein
bechstein@xxxxxxxx