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"LawrenceD'Oliveiro" <
ldo@nz.invalid> spake the secret code <017ikpi$21c1n$
1@dont-email.me> thusly:
"Racist"? Weren't you saying previously that the show was "woke"?
Ah, Lawrence has arrived with the devastating revelation that "racist" and "woke" cannot possibly describe different aspects of the same television
show, because apparently adjectives are allocated one per customer in
New Zealand.
But never mind the argument. Let us admire the typography.
Those were not ordinary quotation marks in the original. Oh no.
Lawrence has lovingly emitted curly Unicode quotes into USENET, because
plain ASCII quotation marks apparently lacked the typographical majesty required for this one-line intellectual thunderbolt. Somewhere a MIME
encoder had to wake up, put on its trousers, and generate an encoded-word Subject header so that Lawrence could ask "weren't you saying..." with
all the elegance of a wedding invitation.
This is alt.flame, Lawrence, not Vogue Typography Quarterly. ASCII worked before your newsreader was born, it works now, and it has the additional advantage that nobody has to inspect Content-Type headers to determine
whether your punctuation survived the trip.
And after all that character-set pageantry, the actual argument is still
"you called it X before and Y now," as though a television show cannot
be both sanctimoniously woke and racially obnoxious depending on what
it is doing at the moment.
Next time save the Unicode for something that deserves international
encoding support. Your thought fit comfortably inside seven bits.
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