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List:       mandrake-newbie
Subject:    RE: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)
From:       "Tomas Tudja" <catcher () hysteria ! sk>
Date:       1998-12-31 23:34:30
Message-ID: 00c501be3516$1d134f70$b1042352 () pentagon
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German, you are right... Now I see, what is the prob;lem here :>

To everybody: a didn't want to be sarcastic or "too smart"... It is just
my english (only 3 months of practice), so sorry guys

Communication in my native language is a bit different like in english,
but I am working hard on it

Tomas Tudja
136 Church Road
N17 8AJ
London, UK
catcher@hysteria.sk
http://hysteria.sk/catcher 

-----Original Message-----
From: newbie-owner@linux-mandrake.com
[mailto:newbie-owner@linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of German Guillot
Sent: 05 August 2004 10:39
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard
drive(diatribe alert)


> To the rest of the list members; my humble apology for the diatribe.
> 
> To Thomas Tudja; if I want your opinion I'll damned well give it to 
> you first.
> 
> You'd probably still screw it up though.
> 
> Regards;
> Charlie
> Let the "zings" begin.

I _know_ I'm making a mistake by butting in here, but I reckon one
should give Tomas the benefit of the doubt. I have a feeling he's not a
native speaker of English (am I right, Tomas?), and for us forriners it
can be very difficult to judge the tone of a written text. Very
difficult both to understand flippancy, irony and sarcasm, and to
transmit any of those.

I don't think he was being an arrogant smartass. I think he was trying
to share his tricks and his way of thinking, however uncalled for some
of it may have been, and just didn't find the right tone. I don't have
the feeling he was trying to put anyone down. Maybe I'm too trusting, it
could well be. It wouldn't be the first time I'm shown up for a sucker.

Aw man, I have a feeling I'm asking for it, butting in where no one
called me. But I've suffered communication problems myself, and still
do, and I felt it was right to put in a word of caution.
Misunderstandings are such a drain on all our energies, and for naught.

Germán.




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