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Date Posted: Sat, 11/29/03 10:38pm
Author: OnB
Subject: Re: No harm
In reply to: john mohdom 's message, "Re: The art of joking" on Sat, 11/29/03 7:25pm

>> I'm sorry if I accidentally caused you harm.
>
>no harm.


Oh, absolutely, it has become a very interesting and educational discussion for me.
All silliness aside, this has made me think about perspective more than I usually do,(although I do admit to playing skewed perspective games deliberately and on a regular basis), and the one perspective I have the least concept of would be the not-English European one.
It just doesn't occur,(at least not on the frontal cortex), that word/culture games aren't universally understood in the same way- kind of like the Indigenous South American laughing hysterically at the sight of people getting out of an airplane.
Cool to play that in my head, maybe take a step to the left when I look back at something I did or said.

OnB

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  • Re: The art of joking -- Ylva, Sun, 11/30/03 7:24am

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