VirginiaTam, thanks for this thread! I read the whole thing (Dr. Kauffman's PDFs on the letters he's received) -- probably makes me a weirdo. It was both fun and sad, and I did laugh out loud several times. My favourite was this: It is also my opinion that sarcasm is an awful disease that all too often languages suffer from. Here in America this disease has become ramped.... I can't even begin to imagine what it's like when a disease gets ramped. Can't be good.

We need more people like Dr. Kauffman.