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I am not sure if this is misunderstanding, satire, or trying to make a point.

The article tag refers to the other definition of article -- "magazine article", not "article of speech".

Well, I think it's definitely not satire. Satire generally has <article>an</article> "intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement." (source: Wikipedia). In other words satire has <article>a</article> target; it's making fun of someone or something, often with <article>the</article> goal of change. I definitely wasn't trying to mock anyone, affect change, or do anything ill-natured.

So I guess it might be one of <article>the</article> other options? :)

Boring question - could you spell out the point you were trying to make? I'm interested to hear it but it's currently kind of vague.

I made a dumb joke. It wasn't sarcasm, satire, snark, or any sort of point. It was a bit of wordplay. That's all. People liked it, and it got a few upvotes.

Someone asked a question, and I posted a response. Then everything got downvotes, so perhaps the response was no longer funny. I probably took it to far. So now I'm posting a clarification.

Or perhaps I'm reading too much into things.

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