<p dir="ltr">Avri +1<br>
I too, reading the mountain of ccwg mail to date, do not remember reading as direct a statement to ccwg as your observation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My +1 is in relation to: <br>
"So just accepting the facts before me and deciding to move on in a<br>
manner that completes this process with the many positives it brings."</p>
<p dir="ltr">Following the ccwg process to date, with a smattering of participation continues to be, for me, a hugely enlightening and positive learning experience in the development of a global multistakeholder governance model. <br>
RD</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 26, 2015 11:43 AM, "Avri Doria" <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Irony is such a hard word to define.<br>
Can the use of bluntness be a form of irony? A point of rhetoric that<br>
is beyond me.<br>
<br>
i think it was an expression of my [finally] accepting a fact of life.<br>
and a definition of what NTIA meant that I had not fully understood before.<br>
<br>
This was a direct statement to the CCWG from NTIA. Not from within a<br>
broader speech, nor in public statements and testimony. Maybe they had<br>
made this direct a statement to the CCWG before, but I never perceived<br>
one in the manner I perceived this one.<br>
<br>
So just accepting the facts before me and deciding to move on in a<br>
manner that completes this process with the many positives it brings.<br>
<br>
avri<br>
<br>
On 26-Nov-15 10:08, Nigel Roberts wrote:<br>
> I did not read Avri's first sentence as ironic. Was it? I'm shocked.<br>
><br>
> As an aside, I've discovered that irony (and its less cultured cousin,<br>
> sarcasm) can lead to severe misunderstandings in an international<br>
> context**<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Nigel.<br>
><br>
> (**I find the milder forms that we Brits use *all* the time in<br>
> ordinary business communication are regularly misinterpreted and taken<br>
> literally by native speakers of American English so I try to avoid it<br>
> as best I can. Sometimes I can't help myself though.)<br>
><br>
><br>
>> On 26-Nov-15 07:33, parminder wrote:<br>
>>><br>
><br>
>>> times have we heard the same outrage, and then a familar routine<br>
>>> follows<br>
>>> - so well described by the first, ironical, sentence of Avri's email.<br>
>>><br>
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