• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    You don’t need tone for sarcasm, because it can be inferred from context. Check out British (“dry”) sarcasm.

    Announcing your sarcasm is like explaining your joke. If you need to do it, you’ve failed, and it falls flat. At that point, it’s better to just not be sarcastic in the first place.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      28 days ago

      If you want to act like a dumbass even ironically, you don’t get to be mad at people treating you like a dumbass

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      I’m quite familiar. And in plain text it’s often lost on those that would benefit from understanding it. In some contexts it doesn’t matter. In others it does. Sometimes clarity is more important than whether or not it falls flat.

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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      28 days ago

      You don’t need tone for sarcasm, because it can be inferred from context. Check out British (“dry”) sarcasm.

      you’re being sarcastic here, right? /s