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person had no idea what I was talking about (I assumed it was someone who
was subscribed but hadn't been actively learning).

Then I didn't check my email for the next three messages.

So it wasn't exactly "lots of people".

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:32:04PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> >
> > mea culpa
>
> Hmm, more lojban, eh? ;)  Seriously, no need to apologize, it was an
> innocent mistake and we all do stuff like this on occasion.  At least
> I know I do.
>
> > I hope you all got a good laugh at my expense.
>
> The funniest part (to me) was that you didn't realize what you had
> done even when lots of people on the "lojban-beginners" mailing list
> were very confused. =)
>
> Anyway, since we are already off-topic, I will highly recommend the
> book "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error", by Kathryn
> Schulz (for everyone, not just you) which gives some fascinating
> perspectives on incidents such as this one.
>
> -Brent
>
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 02:17:36PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> > > > I think brent's reply was making fun of me and didn't have much
> meaning
> > > > beyond that.
> > >
> > > Yes, I was poking some light-hearted fun at you for sending
> > > (mistakenly, I presume) a lojban question to a Haskell mailing
> > > list. =)
> > >
> > > -Brent
> > >
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