Sarah Marr [skm4@dial.pipex.com] wrote:
>Irony, as a method of addressing issues and consciousness-raising, seems to
>be more predominant in the UK than in the US, and given the demographics of
>this list's members, my choice of sarcasm as a communicative style may have
>been misplaced.
This issue is real, and I don't see what your comment was supposed to add to the discussion. I would hope that most of us here are smart enough to realise that few generalisations are ever accurate but are often used as a short-hand for real truths.
Mark