Under the subject heading, "Bird dialects and migration (long!)", Dean
Portelli did indeed harangue us at length, unrelieved, alas, by any
paragraphing save at the end, and all too difficult for my poor old brain.
It is to that second paragraph that I refer. Dean wrote:
>
> One last point: Penn Gwynne wrote "Keith, I'm worried about you my good
> friend? ask a bander to think? ". Well, Penn I myself am a bander. And I ask
> you this question: do you think the above discussion required any thought on
> my part?
Caution 1: Humour is a mite risky on a mailing list: you cannot assume that
all readers have a sense of humour to equal yours, and if they don't, they
may take seriously and at face value, what you have intended as irony, or as
hyperbole to make a point. Eschew humour on mailing lists unless you make
it very clear that it is humour and not to be taken seriously. (Past
postings seemed to indicate that at least some banders are especially
sensitive in this regard.)
Caution 2: Specifically relating to birding-aus. We have to accept that
Penn Gwynne, aka JAG (or JAG de Whag), aka John Gamblin, will ignore Caution
1, and leaven his good sense with frequent interpolation of his unique
humour. I suspect that it bothers him not, if knickers get knotted by those
taking seriously what he has writ for fun. It is only the knicker-knotters
that suffer.
Cheers
Syd
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