Hello, Don(Wyziwyg)T.

Thank you for writing a post in response to my post that was written in response to your post. Also, thanks for sending me a private message that was in response to my private message that I wrote informing you of my post that was written {etc}

I appreciate your clarification that your post was serious in all regards and that there really was a "Suss Law" in England. {or should I have said Great Britain or The United Kingdom? Or maybe England and either Great Britain or The United Kingdom are correct since that law may have been instituted before there was a Great Britain or a United Kingdom??}

When I wrote in my 17 May 08 - 10:38 AM post about how a reader may not "get" that a comment is snark, this sentence would have better conveyed what I meant to say: "Determining whether a comment is serious or snark may be difficult if the reader is from a different culture than the person writing the comment. Being from a different culture may mean that the reader doesn't understand the comment's historical, cultural, and/or political context."

Minor or major misunderstandings can be more likely on forums and blogs such as Mudcat where posters are from different nations, and not just-perhaps- from different racial, ethnic, and/or religious backgrounds within the same nation. And minor or major misunderstanding can lead to bad feelings or anger between posters.

Don, I appreciate that you didn't get on a set * over my comment.

* get bent out of shape; take exception to; get angry about

Although I misunderstood your post, I assure you that I wasn't angry with you about it. I just wanted to be on record with a statement that if your post was snark [which I realize now that it wasn't],
I took exception to an imaginary Suss law in which the police targeted minority people.

Sometimes life is strange because it's so much like fiction {which may have nothing to do with the price of beans in Boston, but I think it sounds good}

:o)

Best wishes,

Azizi