[ExI] Stephen Hawking is dead

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2018 11:21, "Dan TheBookMan" <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 8:02 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 14, 2018, at 7:15 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> A damn shame.
>>>
>>
>> ​It's shameful to die?  bill w​
>>
>>
>> https://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/its-a-shame-something-happened
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
> ​Now I need to explain 'tongue in cheek'?   bill w​
>
>
>
> That works better if you put something like a smiley after it.
> ​dan
>
>
​Is there anything worse than explaining your jokes?  I agree with Will

bill w​

> ​
>
>
> Honestly I prefer no textual signifiers for online facetiousness.  What is
> lost in clarity is gained in mutual respect for participants' ability to
> parse humor.
>
> I suppose, though, that emoticons and emoji are merely punctuation, and if
> I follow that slippery slope I might condemn exclamation points and
> question marks as well.  But humor is a special case to me--the derivative
> of humor with respect to explanatory text is a large and negative value.
>
> Still not sure why Bill is talking about his tongue though.
>
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