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From: Jorge Araya Navarro <elcorreo@deshackra.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: where is alt.religion.emacs?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:44:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a93patsv.fsf@deshackra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bno5mevv.fsf@debian.uxu>


Emanuel Berg writes:

> Jorge Araya Navarro <elcorreo@deshackra.com> writes:
>
>> Well, I often get surprised when the communication
>> tone of some tech people isn't ice-cold! I can think
>> on a couple of developers that use a friendly tone,
>> right now.
>
> I never myself perceived the tone as ice-cold but I
> have understood that's what it is. Either I'm used to
> it or other people are deranged, and I'm normal. You,
> reading this message, probably won't get angry from it
> or feel threatened or whatever. And you shouldn't. But
> I get a mail my boss or teacher right now, and I write
> a letter expressing disagreement and omitting the
> "Hello," and "yours truly" parts he might blow up
> instantly and start yelling of things I don't know
> where come from. That happened to me so many times so
> now I always stop to think, "hey, this is a normal
> person, so I can't use normal language"... And then
> when things cool down they always say "Of course, I'm
> happy to discuss this with you, just not used to the
> way you approach me..." (?!) Beats me.

Ha! Well, I don't abuse the ice-cold tone for emails and other electronic ways of communication, switching is
easy. And certainly some people may not get it but the Latin phrase "Pax et bonum" works as a "yours truly" or
a "Good Bye!".

-- 
Pax et bonum.
Jorge Araya Navarro.
ES: Diseñador Publicitario, Programador Python y colaborador en Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
EN: Ads Designer, Python programmer and contributor Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
EO: Anonco grafikisto, Pitino programalingvo programisto kai kontribuanto en Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
https://es.gravatar.com/shackra



      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-18  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-07  9:27 where is alt.religion.emacs? H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-07 17:40 ` Jorge Araya Navarro
2014-11-07 18:34   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
     [not found]   ` <mailman.13169.1415385292.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-15 20:25     ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-17 18:35       ` Jorge Araya Navarro
     [not found]       ` <mailman.13911.1416249479.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-18  2:17         ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-18  6:44           ` Jorge Araya Navarro [this message]

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