Sarcasm and online communication's cataclysmic breakdown.
Saturday, January 2, 2010 8:05:46 PM
Communication over the internet has always been severely hindered by sarcasm and the difficulties in conveying it. Countless bulletin-boards and forums have been thrown in to chaos over and over again thanks to a poorly-flagged snippet of sarcastic text, and yet little has been done to remedy this major problem. Worse yet, it seems as if online communication is the only form of communication that has difficulties in conveying sarcasm. Even textual communication in an offline format seems to get along well with sarcasm, being able to convey it with ease to even the most ignorant of readers, which of course completely baffles my tiny mind.
Yet online communication, regardless of format, continues to struggle with sarcasm. Maybe it's due to the impulsive nature of internet communication that thickens everyone's minds and dulls the senses, who knows? Now, of course, sarcasm could be easily flagged with the psuedo-HTML "sarcasm tag" or we could bring the sarcasm mark back into use ([!]) but all that does is ruin the delicate humor of sarcasm. It seems as if there is no solution to this baffling problem.
Now, why do I bring up this tired, old internet subject? To call out someone else, of course! I was thoroughly enjoying myself, making pointless little comments on random blogs when I came across this. I didn't bother to look through this person's blog to see what could be possibly offensive to me, instead I decided to make this tepid little joke:
To which she replied:
Jeez, right out of the gate you're resorting to personal attacks AND threats of getting me banned? Lordy, at least pick something more substantial to get me banned over, like that picture of a bare-nekkid mannequin I have in one of my albums or the fact that I directly link to my very NSFW website, sheesh.
After that little quibble she quickly blocked me from her profile and when on her merry little way.
Just to make things clear, I don't usually call out folks on here, because most people here don't need to be called out and also because I'm generally too fucking lazy to even bother. What can I say? I guess I just felt froggy today. I suppose since this is the internet I'll have to make some personal attacks.
Hey Kimberly! Typing in all capitals makes you look like an idiot, ahahahahahahahahaha[!]
Also, Club Penguin is a fucking stupid "game".
Yet online communication, regardless of format, continues to struggle with sarcasm. Maybe it's due to the impulsive nature of internet communication that thickens everyone's minds and dulls the senses, who knows? Now, of course, sarcasm could be easily flagged with the psuedo-HTML "sarcasm tag" or we could bring the sarcasm mark back into use ([!]) but all that does is ruin the delicate humor of sarcasm. It seems as if there is no solution to this baffling problem.
Now, why do I bring up this tired, old internet subject? To call out someone else, of course! I was thoroughly enjoying myself, making pointless little comments on random blogs when I came across this. I didn't bother to look through this person's blog to see what could be possibly offensive to me, instead I decided to make this tepid little joke:
Originally posted by Desu:
I AM VERY OFFENDED
To which she replied:
Originally posted by SqueakeyCat:
if this offends you, then i wonder just how much YOUR BLOG offends everyone else on Opera. You have been reported to the TOS team.
Have a good life OFF OF OPERA
Jeez, right out of the gate you're resorting to personal attacks AND threats of getting me banned? Lordy, at least pick something more substantial to get me banned over, like that picture of a bare-nekkid mannequin I have in one of my albums or the fact that I directly link to my very NSFW website, sheesh.
After that little quibble she quickly blocked me from her profile and when on her merry little way.
Just to make things clear, I don't usually call out folks on here, because most people here don't need to be called out and also because I'm generally too fucking lazy to even bother. What can I say? I guess I just felt froggy today. I suppose since this is the internet I'll have to make some personal attacks.
Hey Kimberly! Typing in all capitals makes you look like an idiot, ahahahahahahahahaha[!]
Also, Club Penguin is a fucking stupid "game".
Originally posted by ninabritney:
Well said. You go girl!









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