Not sure why it took this long, but someone has finally posted audio from my "Communication is free" talk at FISL7.0 in Brazil a few months ago.
Re:Could it be?
merlyn on 2006-10-05T18:33:03
If that was supposed to be funny, I missed it.Re:Could it be?
jordan on 2006-10-06T18:53:22
Yeah, it was supposed to be, but it was pretty stupid.Irony Re:Could it be? [re Communications is free]
n1vux on 2006-10-27T18:23:25
The danger of dry irony is that it isn't often obvious to others. Often have I been hoist on that petard.
Given the title of the talk (and the O.P.), the comment suggesting it was posted free only because it didn't work on pay-per-view would have been funny, _if_ viewed with irony-sensitive glasses. ALas, most people don't own a pair (yet I'm cursed with viewing the whole world through a pair continually). (The headlines I read are much funnier than what the paper printed. It's not entirely a bad thing, but I have to be careful not to laugh at inappropriate times.):-) isn't just a clue to the clueless, it's also a sign that YES I THINK I'M FUNNY, IF YOU DIDN'T GET IT PLEASE RE-READ BEFORE FLAMING. It's context. Spoken, we'd likely have /heard/ a facetious lilt, which is missing in text.
(Dry, flat delivery in person can be toxic too, unless you cheat and cock a brow.)
Quoting the original & talk subject "Communications is free" might have helped make the ironic connection more obvious, too. [I've restored it on this comment's subject:.]
I will have to download and listen later, thanks for the URL.
