Posted by so on June 12, 2005, at 14:52:31
In reply to Re: So's request for Robert Hsiung -- prbtnry.prd, posted by Sabina on June 12, 2005, at 8:30:06
> <snort>
Can you expand on what you mean by "<snort>"? I am unfamiliar with the term as it seems to be used here. I have most often seen that term used in reference to self-titration of certain drugs. I also see or hear it used as a negative reference to police officers, to large people and to wealthy people, but none of those meanings seem to fit here. My lag in appreciating the meaning in this context might derive from the fact that, since learning that the word can sometimes be used that way, I have tried to exclude from my vocabulary such negative usages. I've stricken the usages cited above from my vocabulary primarily because it betrays to some people an inability or unwillingness on my part to articulate the basis for an implicit negative connotation.Is the term intended in this context to imply humor? If so, does the implicit humor rely on satirical wit to expose a perceived flaw in some other statement? I am unfamiliar with that type of wit in this context and I don't normally parse messages here for such usage because I understand certain types of humor to be discouraged at this forum. Could you, if that is the purpose of the statement, please tell me what perceived flaw might be the object of the wit?
If I am to correctly parse the written utterance as wit, could you offer me some advice on how, within the guidelines of this forum, to use sharp wit to expose perceived flaws in another statement? If my effort to understand the term is still way off target, could you help point me in the right direction?
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