Nov. 26, 2015
10:08 a.m.
I did not read Avri's first sentence as ironic. Was it? I'm shocked. As an aside, I've discovered that irony (and its less cultured cousin, sarcasm) can lead to severe misunderstandings in an international context** Nigel. (**I find the milder forms that we Brits use *all* the time in ordinary business communication are regularly misinterpreted and taken literally by native speakers of American English so I try to avoid it as best I can. Sometimes I can't help myself though.)
On 26-Nov-15 07:33, parminder wrote:
times have we heard the same outrage, and then a familar routine follows - so well described by the first, ironical, sentence of Avri's email.