On 16/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote: > I won't quote it, but George's comment was as clear as the nose on my > face. It was hostile, very directed, and IMHO, very inappropriate.
On a hunch, I just checked, and George is a Brit, posting from a BTinternet address. There is actually a cultural collision here in style of expression. Americans are, IME, extremely polite (perhaps because you never know who is carrying a concealed handgun:) and do have a certain formality to their writing style. You see this not only on lists but across US publishing, serious newspapers maintain a formality of style that has largely disappeared in UK after the London 'Times' began using photos on the front page about 30 years ago. To Brits, US prose often seems turgid and verbose. I guess UK expression must often seem uncouth and intrusively direct. I think maybe that accounts for the different perceptions here. To my mind George's expression was tetchy and direct but not intended to cause offence, just to make a frustrated point - which I took to anyway be about quoting. However for Art in Canada and Laurie in USA, it seems to have crossed a line. Not making excuses, but hoping we can understand and move on. -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
