The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[billd91]

Are we even speaking the same language?!?

 

[prabe]

Are we even speaking the same language?!?

Probably not.

 

[billd91]

Probably not.

Shazbat!

 

[prabe]

Shazbat!

Nano-nano!

 

[payn]

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

 

[billd91]

Sure, you could blame someone for responding to you. Or... you could take responsibility for your own post on a topic and tone.

 

[Ryujin]

Sure, you could blame someone for responding to you. Or... you could take responsibility for your own post on a topic and tone.

Naaaaaawwwwww......

 

[CleverNickName]

Sure, you could blame someone for responding to you. Or... you could take responsibility for your own post on a topic and tone.

PSA:
If you are writing something--a memo, a letter, a story, an email, anything at all--it is your responsibility as the author to make sure the reader can understand what you are trying to say. It's on you, the author, to make sure that what you are writing is complete, concise, and correct.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

PSA:
If you are writing something--a memo, a letter, a story, an email, anything at all--it is your responsibility as the author to make sure the reader can understand what you are trying to say. It's on you, the author, to make sure that what you are writing is complete, concise, and correct.

Counterpoint-

Any bit of comedy that employs satire or irony in a proper and correct fashion requires that some portion of the audience be confused (or even hurt) by the comedy.

Ambiguity is not a bug, but the central feature of any type comedy that plays with or invokes satire and irony. Simply put, the possibility that a reader can misunderstand the message is necessary to the proper conveyance of the message.

See, e.g., Linda Hutcheson, Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony.