Does sarcasm come through in online forums?

by **AAFitz** on Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:34 pm

I see no point in using sarcasm in this forum myself.

by **oVo** on Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:44 am

I sense a tone of sarcasm in that last post.

by **detlef** on Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:50 am

If you gotta ask...

by **jimboston** on Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:05 am

I often end my sarcastic comments with the "wink" smiley...

I also use periods to convey dramtic pauses... when "read" with a pause I think this helps convey sarcasm...

though some here have complained that I do that too often... and also complained about my apparant need to start each new sentense on it's own line

that however is another tactic I use to convey may sarcasm... sometimes

I just received an email from a friend... and he introduced me to another way...

he used the following "/sarc" without the quotes... to indicate the sarcasm was being turned off...

of course... if you alwasy have to point out you are being sarcastic... doesn't it take some of the fun of being sarcastic away????

maybe that's another poll....

by **oVo** on Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:43 am

In actual RL dialogue between actual people... I've found that in the USA, southerners have a tough time picking up sarcasm in conversation because it just isn't used as much... or the same way as in the north.

hey jimbo... I do that . . . too.

by **Fruitcake** on Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:36 pm

It is amazing what an education can teach one.

by **jimboston** on Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:07 pm

oVo wrote:In actual RL dialogue between actual people... I've found that in the USA, southerners have a tough time picking up sarcasm in conversation because it just isn't used as much... or the same way as in the north.

maybe us northerners are just a more cynical and essentially 'mean' lot of people?

i've heard that people from the northeast just aren't as "nice" as people from the south or midwest before... from multiple people...

where i grew up... you had to have thick skin and be able to defend yourself, both verbally and physically... and this was from your friends

by **Audax** on Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:02 pm

jimboston wrote:
oVo wrote:In actual RL dialogue between actual people... I've found that in the USA, southerners have a tough time picking up sarcasm in conversation because it just isn't used as much... or the same way as in the north.

maybe us northerners are just a more cynical and essentially 'mean' lot of people?

i've heard that people from the northeast just aren't as "nice" as people from the south or midwest before... from multiple people...

where i grew up... you had to have thick skin and be able to defend yourself, both verbally and physically... and this was from your friends

Hay lad, where I come from way oop north england, we had it really 'ard...Da' wud coom 'ome after drinkin' 16 pints of bi'er take 'is strap to us all, give us a chicken wing each for our scram, send us off to bed tellin' us he weren't to be disturbed or 'e would knock us mooor. We 'ad it real 'ard then, not like them nancy boys froom tit sooth...'e wud ger us oop in t'morning with strap, make oos lick plates clean and bloow them dry with our breath, so tight was 'e we didna 'ave toowels...we shud 'ave gorn tit school but didna bovver, anyways we 'ad to sell sticks for pennies to buy dinner.

by **jiminski** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:58 am

by **Robinette** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:27 pm

by **I_AM_RESISTY** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:49 pm

Just use simple BBcode to get it across as such:

"That was a great move [/sarcasm]"

by **Snorri1234** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:53 pm

LAWL!

by **TheBro** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:34 pm

owenshooter wrote:*snicker*.... oh, and that was made in my assholish tone, which i just learned permeates all my posts...-0
p.s.-notice the sweet brown tone of that word?

by **Zlorfik** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:59 pm

I don't remember a time when I was sarcastic, and somebody didn't completely not misinterpret it, in an opposite sense to an extent that it is impossible to understand what in god's name I'm trying to say here