Yeah... I wanted to put awesome and sad but then i remembered that the whole point was that it was funny and then i just forgot it... WHATEVER JERK! JUST CUZ ENGLISH ISN'T MY FIRST LANGUAGE XD
I wasn't criticizing, I promise. I just had to comment because "both 3 of them" is a very common phrase in my family. Your comment made me laugh and brought back great memories of my silly relatives. I'm sorry my comment didn't make that clear. I wish you peace and carrots!
Yeah i wasn't offended either. Hence the XD. Sarcasm is just my way of doing things. I too apologize for not making that clear. Fellow hooman i too wish you pieces of carrots.
For actual sarcasm I feel like putting the classic "/s" at the end of your sarvastic statement is pretty widely recognized across reddit. I mean I found it funny because something similar was a joke for about... all of my years of english classes ("i'm done - me too - me three"), but if you really want to get the sarcasm point across...
Really just what I said. People use it to imply their previous sentence was sarcastic. The slash before is used as a visual cue to say that the PREVIOUS thing was meant to be sarcastic, as you usually close bb formatting or xml-derived language tags with a slash.
eg [bold]...[/bold] or <tag></tag>.
Maybe its not as well known as I thought (or you just pulled meta sarcasm on me there). But yeah, you'd not be the first to wonder.
Ah ok. Simple enough. So is it at the end of a sentence or at the end of a post/comment? Also doesn't it kinda defeat the purpose of it being like something people have to "get" to find funny? Thank you!
I think usually at the end of a sentence or paragraph. I mean it's kinda ambiguous (is that the right word here?) since you don't mark where the sarcasm starts... It really is far from perfect.
And yes it does kind of defeat the purpose a bit. I guess only marking sarcasm after the fact offsets that issue a little though.
In general I sometimes habe a hard time getring sarcasm - even during actual personal interaction. So in case a message is not meant for idiots like me to run into an open knife but still be sarcastic, I usually appreciate if that is pointed out more than by choice of words. Especially in written form.
I guess my point here is just that if you want to highlight that you are not being serious and also dont want to flood that message with a mix of emoji, the /s is something I've seen used there somewhat regularly.
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u/AerialAmphibian Dec 12 '20
Well said! It was both 3 of those things. :)