Communication is not a guessing game.
Should we bring back the percontation point?
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What's the point of telling people you are using sarcasm or irony? The joy is in those that take you seriously because they did not get it. A warning system ruins the play.
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When I'm indicating sarcasm or irony, I like to use this smiley:from my own board.
When I first joined TBBS, I never used smilies. I didn't like them taking the place of actual words or dumbing down the context. Now, though, due to innumerable miscommunications by others, it is far simpler for me to use a smiley and save the time and trouble of going back and explaining what I meant.
Couldn't agree more. But sadly have increasingly found them a useful shorthand...
It's become a necessity, really. What's even worse is that, for some reason, this generation is becoming context poor. At least in my experiences, there are a growing number of people who do not grasp context, and totally miss what is being said. More and more often I have to spell out the meaning of what I'm saying because it totally flies over people's heads.
I spend the vast majority of my time on this board in Misc & TNZ. At the time I started using my smilies more often, it was due to my experiences on other boards as well, where discussions were derailed by a total lack of understanding, even after repeated explanations. Finally, I just started to use smilies as a way of summarizing a sentence in an effort to fend off future misunderstandings. To do otherwise just gives me a headache.
I prefer the <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags. Takes longer to type--but there's no mistaking it.
When I'm indicating sarcasm or irony, I like to use this smiley:from my own board.
When I first joined TBBS, I never used smilies. I didn't like them taking the place of actual words or dumbing down the context. Now, though, due to innumerable miscommunications by others, it is far simpler for me to use a smiley and save the time and trouble of going back and explaining what I meant.
Couldn't agree more. But sadly have increasingly found them a useful shorthand...
It's become a necessity, really. What's even worse is that, for some reason, this generation is becoming context poor. At least in my experiences, there are a growing number of people who do not grasp context, and totally miss what is being said. More and more often I have to spell out the meaning of what I'm saying because it totally flies over people's heads.
I spend the vast majority of my time on this board in Misc & TNZ. At the time I started using my smilies more often, it was due to my experiences on other boards as well, where discussions were derailed by a total lack of understanding, even after repeated explanations. Finally, I just started to use smilies as a way of summarizing a sentence in an effort to fend off future misunderstandings. To do otherwise just gives me a headache.
100 per cent agree
Brilliant post. Context is all. But that teacake is another matter. A dangerous, insidious creature to be avoided at all costs...
You are kinder than me. I'm too busy laughing at being misunderstood to care, or bother straightening it all out.
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100 per cent agree
Indeed she is. Delightfully dangerous and insidious a creature, not to be underestimated.
I have this OCD thing about accuracy. I have to be absolutely, unfailingly 100% accurate in my statements, if I know the information is valid. If I am uncertain, I make it known by adding qualifiers like "possibly" and "I think, but I'm not sure". These qualifiers get ignored so often that I just get frustrated, particularly when political partisanship is involved, where someone is only willing to speak or think in black and white terminology.
Hear, hear!Language is all
(My third language, though, seemed to fail me when I tried to translate that (quite old) strip.)
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Agreed.
One of the main points of irony is the ambiguity -- the disguise. Having to denote one's irony would take away the power. Can you imagine "A Modest Proposal" with a percontation point following every sentence? A great piece of literature ruined! I am firmly against this percontation point!
That might be a good idea. I tend to be a very sarcastic person in real life so i write the same way. Unfortunately I have has some unfortunate misunderstandings here to remind me it doesn't alway translate well.
I’ve always called “#” the number sign, and it’s usually used to indicate “Number” this or that: 1818 Main Street, Suite #220. Episode #16: Spock Gets a Hernia.
“#” has also been used to mean pounds (as in weight), although I heard it called the “pound sign” only infrequently until the advent of touch-tone phone dialing and automated answering systems. (“To continue, please press the pound key. To select another option, press the star key. To speak to a human being — forget it, you’re fucked.”)
I’ve never heard of any connection between “#” and the “£” symbol for British pounds (currency) — and this is the first time I’ve seen it called a “hash.”
That depends on whether we’re talking about people romantically flirting with each other or a doctor writing a prescription.
does anybody know why they called it the star key on phones rather than asterisk?
Probably didn't want to confuse all of the mouth-breathers living out there.
In all my time in the US (my entire life), I have only heard it called "pound" and have never heard it called "hash" until this thread.
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Hash as in hash mark. The '#' sign is often used in Twitter feeds.
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