Re: [FC-general] Re: How to change default outcome of shift/reduce conflict?

[Tim Van Holder]

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 15:29, Hans Aberg wrote:
> At 13:08 +0100 2002/01/15, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
> >  You know that if someone were in that mood it could be
> >misinterpreted to be an insult ... Next time you might want to put a
> >smiley behind that, or a "<g>".
> 
> Have you ever thought of that telling others what to do the way you do
> could be interpreted as an insult?

Now that is uncalled for.  He was right; plain text does not convey the
intended tone of a message (in this case, it could have been said in
anger or in jest, for example).  As such it is always a good idea to
explicitly show the intended tone of an ambiguous statement (and, in
fact, this is common practice, not just the way he does things).

And no, I don't see how indicating to someone how s/th is usually done
is an insult.  It may come off as patronizing, but that is a subjective
matter.