Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > With a u, you mean, of course...
> > >
> > > No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh...
> > > No wonder your empire fell apart.
>
> > That is very rude to say on a public mailing list. I agree that everyone
> > is entitled to their opinion. May be you are right and may be you are
> > wrong. But this could potentially result in flame wars. May be you meant it
> > in a funny way! But this is taking it too far. Not everyone might take it
> > as you intended it to.
>
> I should probably clarify for the international audience that Ron is using
> sarcasm, a form of deadpan humor. Ron is probably more apathetic about
> spelling than his words let on.
Yes, thank you. I was trying and miserably failing to be humourous.
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