Just FYI, this is not sarcasm, it's ironic humor. Not the same thing. Sarcasm is "the use of irony to mock or convey contempt" which is obviously not what you meant.
Or like the way that some people, when confronted with the awsome ineffable magnitude of my sense of humour...
</Ironic_humor> ;-)
And now here's a font complete enough that perhaps I can find the right glyph to punctuate the idea. We need something with a bit more nuance than the interrobang, I think.
Just FYI, you were humorless in your interpretation of his comment. Humorless is "unable to see humor in things when most others do."
When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a
scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean
—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice,
“whether you can make words mean so many different
things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which
is to be master—that’s all.”
:D
Like how "literally" has come to represent the feeling of emphasis, and the association with the experience of one-upping other emphatic adjectives like "extremely."
http://english.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/prescriptivism-and-d...
In fact, this is the very mechanism by which language evolves.
I have to admit I thought the same as you until someone pointed this out.
Is this Pretentious Twaddlese for "stupid"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
"litterally" only has one t in it.
Yes, it does. There is no "right" in language use beyond communication with the target audience. What people understand a word to mean is all there is.
It's arrogant to think that the language that we're speaking right now is the pinnacle of linguistic evolution and that it's only downhill from here.
Language has so much redundancy that a slightly different understanding of a single word in a sentence rarely is of any consequence.
If you knew the OP was more likely to feel insulted than to feel helped, that wouldn't have changed your action?
> Just to be clear, I quite liked Lister's [sic] note as well.
So yes.
There's another small word ("is") missing in your last sentence.
Call me old fashioned, but even small words matter. To quote Ernest Cline, "People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up."
I apologize for the profanity, but it's just such a great quote, and so appropriate in this case.
Btw, Stoppard also said "I was always looking for the entertainer in myself ... [but] it's really about human beings".
It's also important, when pretentiously namedropping a writer and bragging about how you actually read them (all to win a pointless internet argument about a throwaway 'sarcasm' tag) to actually know that writer's name.
Because his post could be read as sincere (unjustified) criticism of Google, he used the well-known internet convention of "/sarcasm" to avoid an unnecessary, off-topic sub-thread stemming from his post. How's that for irony.
However wouldn't you agree that what I would like, and what is considered generally polite in our culture are probably not always equal?
Full Definition of sarcasm 1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2 : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
Nope your Ironic contains sarcasm.