And English is such a rich language, full of meaning, subtle shades of intention and little things like irony, sarcasm, mocking humour, puns and much, much more... We seem to be losing all of this and going to taking a post word for word with no attempt to recognise the writer's intentions but just the reader's literal interpretation... shame really, and results in silly meaning contentions all over the forum (and I'm just as guilty of that if someone really irritates)...
So add a "Here, here" to hidari's post above...