Ending with OK might not be OK. OK

[Victor Steinbok]

Eoin,
Don't feed the trolls and use caution when attending to their advice.

Focus instead on more interesting things, like some fashion terminology,
e.g., "baglady chic".

We all have our idiosyncrasies and can step on a toe or two. But when
called on it, most will usually accept it and revise their behavior,
rather than becoming defiant and rude. The few exceptions are best left
to their own devices.

So, once again--don't feed the trolls.

VS-)

On 2/24/2010 6:57 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> Eoin,
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> Thanks for the update on your name.  I've never encountered it.  I would have guessed it pronounced like Ian but merely spelled differently.
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> Note that ending with OK perhaps gives a wrong connotationin the USA, a certain fisty assertiveness .  You might not have that connotation over there in Ireland.
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> JUst want to let you know.  OK.
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:32:21 +0000
>> From: ebairead at GMAIL.COM
>> Subject: Re: What is winter? (UNCLASSIFIED)
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>> Hi everyone
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>> Taking the points one at a time.
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>> Tom wasn't being rude, he was being homely. That's OK. I've seen rude, and
>> over here it often involves many possible (and some not-so-possible)
>> cognates of a Middle English verb meaning "to move restlessly, to fidget" .
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>> Secondly, Eoin is the earlier Irish form of John, predating the more common
>> Se=C3=A1n by several centuries. It's sort of pronounced like Owen.
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>> Thirdly, every seems to agree - seasons depend primarily on the weather.
>> When there's no real weather (like in Ireland) then length of day is as
>> important as temperature. If there are extremely high mountains to the left=
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>> and a large mass of frozen Greenland to the right, and several thousand
>> miles of continent in the middle, then Spring is whatever the locals say it
>> is. And if they say "September to March", then so be it.
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>> OK?
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>> Eoin
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