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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Norbert Preining wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""> You will need to take that up with Boris, David. It was he, as
President of TUG, who authorised me to write on behalf of TUG in the
Phil, are you Japanese? Your failure to grasp sarcasm is my daily bread
with colleagues in Japan, but I thought *you* would be able to get it.
I was proven wrong.</pre>
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Well, I imagine that is not the first time you have been proven
wrong. But as to sarcasm, with the exception of some earlier
messages from your good self, I am unaware of any attempts at the
same, certainly in the context of the present discussion, nor have I
the slightest idea to which message you might be referring. As I
tacitly explained to Siep in an earlier message, if I write a
message then the words that I use are the message — the reader is
not intended to infer anything beyond what is written. If some
choose to use language in a less open and more cryptic way, then
others cannot be blamed for taking their words literally.<br>
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** Phil.<br>
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