[Mageia-dev] RPM5 AND MAGEIA

Wed Mar 9 02:40:52 CET 2011

2011/3/9 Hoyt Duff <hoytduff at gmail.com>:
+> On 3/8/11, Per Øyvind Karlsen <peroyvind at mandriva.org> wrote:
+>> 2011/3/8 Balcaen John <balcaen.john at gmail.com>:
+>>> Le Tuesday 08 March 2011 18:11:11, Per Øyvind Karlsen a écrit :
+>> I know, could've done better to get points across with shorter and greater
+>> consistence, which could've made it clearer that it was just as much an
+>> attempt
+>> at defusing a silly situation with some irony and sarcasm.
+>
+> I have not seen that approach ever work well in any forum except where
+> all the conversations take place in the same language with all native
+> speakers. Much of irony and sarcasm is lost in the translation and
+> even when done well are typically missed by the person they are
+> targeted against.
+>
+> Concise and non-clever usually wins these debates in the least amount of time.
+Hm, yes, I guess that's actually a reasonable point to be made, when not really
+knowing someone properly and their common behaviour, language, nor any
+possibility of seeing their facial expressions, diffrent culture etc.,
+things gets easily misinterpreted, especially in already tense environment..
+
+Going back and reading through my mail, I was actually "surprised" of
+not finding more than a couple of obvious (,but IMO justified;) incidents
+of sarcasm being the worst, trying not to increase existing tension..
+
+But considering behaviour from others, I find it rather calm/reasonable way
+to respond to a situation where already experiencing rather rude and unfriendly
+behaviour, and several comments already being made that's found to be rather
+unfair, trying to tackle it with some humour and feeling the need to address
+critics is quite appropriate and expected behaviour in general, worst offense
+being length of non-technical/boring content obviously upsetting some.. :|
+
+Finding the right approach and try ignore/respond to in the most appropriate
+manner isn't that easy to determinate.. :/
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyvind
+