Difficulty of communication on the Internet/ was JK Rowling on CBC News

[Tonks]

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> bdclark0423
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> anyway, i've totally lost focus on why i'm replying now
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> I guess, just treat each other respect, and if you feel offended, 
it 
> may not be the other person's fault, it all could just be simple 
> misinterperation...
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Tonks:
lol .. welcome to OT, where we even get so far OT that we get off 
the 'Off Topic' topic... and on and on. 

I have to confess that I do have that dry satirical humor that you 
mentioned, but I was born in the U.S. 

I have found that it doesn't matter what you say here someone will 
read into it and take it in a direction that you never meant to go. 
And if you say something such as "this doesn't apply to (this 
group)", because you know someone will say "that doesn't apply to 
(that group)" and you are trying to short circuit that before it 
starts, then someone else will say, "what do you have against (that 
group)"... because they think that just because you used a term it 
was a slur. And the fact that they perceived the term as a slur 
means that it is a bad word to them, not necessary to the person who 
used it.. and what does that really say in the end.. and then we go 
around and around and eventually we are all damned anyway we turn.

Isn’t it fun??

Tonks_op