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From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: How to communicate attitudes (and avoid flames!)
Message-ID: <7371@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 16:23:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 16:23:10 1985
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Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
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In article <1039@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>>
>>[...from a review of Mark Leeper's review of WEIRD SCIENCE..]
>>When the boys programmed the computer to create her, they fed in
>>pictures of Albert Einstein for her intelligence component, and
>>pictures of David Lee Roth for her personality traits, in addition to
>>many Playboy centerfolds for her physical characteristics.  This makes
>>it obvious how she can manipulate peoples minds, of course!  
>
>Huh?  Are you telling me that all of Einstein's knowledge was printed
>somewhere on his face?  There is more to being a genius than knowing
>what Einstein looked like!
>				Mark Leeper

    We really have to have some way to communicate sarcasm without
a smiley face. Clearly the review of the review was a "Gosh! really?"
type observation on the film's rather obvious "misrepresentations
of reality". In "Valentina: Soul in Sapphire" by Delaney and
Steigler (pico-review: large program becomes sentient) they used
the convention of giving facial expressions in angle brackets.
Using this convention the last sentence of the comment might be 
rendered as:

    " This makes it obvious how she
can manipulate people's minds, of course!"

	While this is a bit clumsy to read at first, familiarity
breeds contentment . I strongly recommend
that we adopt the convention (at least until something better
comes along ).
	greg.
-- 
Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo
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