thief0 on 27/11/2009 at 14:45
why hasn't this thread been moved to Comm Chat?
steo on 27/11/2009 at 14:49
sarcasm is a game.
Aerothorn on 27/11/2009 at 15:25
Quote Posted by thief0
why hasn't this thread been moved to Comm Chat?
Moderator ON VACATION
Ulukai on 27/11/2009 at 17:13
More like Moderator up to his eyeballs in work :(
PM me if you need stuff moving pronto
frozenman on 27/11/2009 at 22:48
One part of me thinks this could possibly be an interesting theoretical question- transmission of sarcasm through non-verbal communication, identifying various breeds of internet sarcasm- but the other part of me wants to post a picture of a mutant baby
Inline Image:
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/peri098.jpgHow am I supposed to function?
theBlackman on 28/11/2009 at 01:25
[enter sarcastic mode] Hunh??[/sarcastic]
:ebil:
Briareos H on 28/11/2009 at 08:58
this thread is going places
242 on 28/11/2009 at 12:37
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
How can an "internet newbie" read sarcasm?
Internet is irrelevant to that. If a person discerns sarcasm in RL, he/she will discern it in internet as well, with smiles or without.
Kolya on 29/11/2009 at 17:26
Internet communication lacks several channels that can help distinguish sarcasm in RL. Prosody, gestures, facial expression, world reference objects, etc. So saying it was irrelevant whether it's face-2-face or text-based communication simply is not true.
I understand that some try to play down this aspect, saying all you need a is a brain, to understand sarcasm on the net, but that somewhat obscures the fact that you have to rely much more on knowing an author and context than in RL.
Say, if I meet someone, a total stranger at the bus station and we both look at an advert there and she says: "Beautiful." I can understand her remark to be sarcastic, even though the picture may not be obviously ugly (lacking a context-contradiction here) and even though I don't know if she dislikes this sort of image (lacking knowledge-contradiction). I can still go by the sound of her voice and the face she makes with it.
Similar situations on the net regularly fail to be perceived as sarcasm, see youtube.
EDIT: A funny example of context-contradiction is how on 4chan, when someone posts a pornographic image, people have made it a habit to point out seemingly unimportant details found in the image ("Look, McGyver's on the telly!").
