Posted by Noa on May 25, 2000, at 7:34:56
In reply to Re: Serious interjection, posted by claire 7 on May 24, 2000, at 19:10:43
> >A great deal of humor, if not most of humor, is about hostility, anger, pain, and self-deprecation. It is, in short, a time-honored way of dealing with human discomfort. I'm afraid I don't understand YOUR point.
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Claire, I guess my point is that this medium, electronic text, is not well suited for conveying the nuances of humor *because* humor handles the emotional material you correctly mention and because e-text is not able to communicate all the nuances and subtlies that convey intent, tone, etc.This thread seemed to me to be moving into that no-man's land in which the e-text starts to have a life of its own and people start to get hurt. Given some recent skirmishes around here, my intent was to make a plea for people to wary of this happening. That's all.
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