The first law of Internet email (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Sunday, 10 September 2006

The first law of Internet email

Any email message containing the phrase “this is not meant to be a flame” inevitably is a flame.

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1. Xrlq wrote @ Sun, 10 Sep 2006, 3:35 pm CDT:

Right, but all that counts is that it wasn’t meant to be. Cf. “I didn’t mean to do that,” which all but entails that the speaker did in fact do it.

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