Has there ever been a way of denoting sarcasm in email? Like a smiley?
As a british person who is completely unable to form a sentence without sarcasm, I need an answer. Otherwise I am wondering about using ^ which I am calling a sarc shark.
^^ no you looked great with that lump of pizza stuck to your nose!^^
^ giving me more work to do when I am about to leave the office is fine ^
^^^ really thats soooooooo interesting ^^^
or
^^^^^^^^^ yes I am perfectly happy with your decision to break up with me ^^^^^^^^
the more sharks for the more sarc!!!
Any takers, any answers?
^it would really change my life!^
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">hmmm, I'm not aware of a sarcastic
smiley… perhaps a 'twinkle' ;-)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I think your right in that it is a
very british thing. I use it a lot less that at
first on the list, primarily because when I did I usually received hurt and
angry replies saying I was being flippant, glib and trying to be clever.
The irony being I usually </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>was </i>being
flippant, glib and trying to be clever
- but as humour not contempt. That I think is what gets misunderstood
and is hard to communicate through email. I have to say Americans
(particularly) just don't seem to use sarcasm and irony the way brits do,
or at least it doesn't seem to be so ingrained in their humour. That's not
to say it's a bad thing, but just it does lead to being misunderstood
sometimes. T.whids dictionary definition gave it as 'intending to
humiliate and the oxford says it's 'contemptiously mocking'. I have to
say I don't think it's used by British people like that. Mocking, yes but
without the contempt (most of the time:-) It's so deep in british culture
that I think we also use it without even thinking about it. I blame
Blackadder…</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">So my advice is to cut down on the
sarcasm if you don't want to be
misunderstood or use a good ol' smiley to be safe</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">still your doing better than me, my
intro would read…</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> As
a british person
who is completely unable to form a sentence…</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">;-)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">jess.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Has there ever
been a way of denoting sarcasm in email? Like a smiley? </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> As a british
person who is completely unable to form a sentence without sarcasm, I need an answer. Otherwise I am
wondering about using ^ which I am calling a sarc shark.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> o</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">/^ rssgallery.com</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> ][</span></font></div>
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Any given day,
:-+ = sarcasm with a raised eyebrow as in "Really, sweetie darling"
:-> = cutesy sarcasm
;-+ = wink wink sweetie darling
:-? = oh, fuck it!
btw: how many ^ are too many ;-)
Liza
;-? = you smart ass
>I blame Blackadder…
And Monty Python
And Mr Bean
And Absolutely Fabulous
And Faulty Towers
And Keeping Up Appearances
and last but not least
blame it all on Benny Hill ;-+
^how much?^
i think you may mean irony, saying the opposite of what you feel. but
i don't know the definitions, let me look them up:
irony:
i
I blame the parents…
marc ;-%
> >I blame Blackadder…
>
> And Monty Python
> And Mr Bean
> And Absolutely Fabulous
> And Faulty Towers
> And Keeping Up Appearances
>
> and last but not least
>
> blame it all on Benny Hill ;-+
>
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> I blame the parents…
>
> marc ;-%
I blame the children…
j;-o
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Charlotte Frost wrote:
> As a british person who is completely unable to form a sentence without sarcasm, I need an answer. Otherwise I am wondering about using ^ which I am calling a sarc shark.
Just say 'I'm a british.robot.'
Then everyone will know you can't form a sentence without
being sarcastic–as per your own words.
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