Sean Golden wrote in article <34371048.2B44@earthlink.net>...
[ much of post deleted...]

>Sometimes I am absolutely flabbergasted by the
> responses I get on this newsgroup (and others).
>
> Is irony a forgotten art? Does anyone understand the purpose of
> paraphrasing an argument in order to refute it? Every time I employ
> either of these rather common literary devices in a discussion on the
> internet, there are several people who completely misunderstand the
> message, focusing on one or two sentences in an otherwise brilliantly
> constructed ; ) argument. And then they get mad about that fragment
> taken out of context. I begin to wonder about the future....

Um, good point...! ;-)
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