About sarcasm and sense of humour
<div class="IPBDescription">Why it's so important...</div>To use the internet without getting insane or suicidal, there are some things that you must know.
The first thing is that the internet was intended as an medium for scientists to exchange information and make them available from other institutes...
The second thing is that that doesn't happen. The internet has become a place for everyone, from 6-year-old americans to 90-year-old chinese.
This results in the fact that noone can exspect to see only scientific information and conversation in the internet, but also other forms of communication. But due to the impressive variety of users, some misunderstandings can't be avoided. Unfortunately most of them appear only because a lack of sense of humour and the understanding of sarcasm.
When you look in your dictonary for "Sarcasm", you'll probably find a answer that's multiple pages long and written in some mysterious language. But for the internet you don't need a exact definition of Sarcasm, you need the understanding of it. Just remember: Something that seems untrue or hurting without any reason can be either a) untrue and senseless or b) sarcasm .
This may seem a bit too easy, but it's mostly right. Now you only must think about your own sanity and decide if you want to read it as form a and be hurted or angry or as form be and be happy. There was a pretty good example linked in this forum. It lead to a mod-forum where someone asked a question about DayOfDefeat. the other memebers started a weird discussion about mods and mixed them up, saying "hey, DoD, isn't that this crappy TerrorVsAntiterror-Thingie? I like FLF more, there you can build up your base and become a immortal hero...". This went on untill someone of the DoD-Forums posted a link in the DoD-forums and there the DoD-Community showed their bad side and flamed the first mod-forum-members for beeing lame and knowing nothing.
This is a perfect example of sarcasm not noticed...
Sometimes the sarcasm isn't so obvious and you must use your imagination to say if something is serious (seriousness is very rare in the net) or a joke. If someone in the forums reply to a question "I'll kill your family" you can be pretty sure that's a joke.
So what I want to say:
Either learn the meaning of sarcasm or prepare to get injured and confused to insanity!
A small note for people who know and use sarcasm: Mark sarcastic comments with smilies!
The first thing is that the internet was intended as an medium for scientists to exchange information and make them available from other institutes...
The second thing is that that doesn't happen. The internet has become a place for everyone, from 6-year-old americans to 90-year-old chinese.
This results in the fact that noone can exspect to see only scientific information and conversation in the internet, but also other forms of communication. But due to the impressive variety of users, some misunderstandings can't be avoided. Unfortunately most of them appear only because a lack of sense of humour and the understanding of sarcasm.
When you look in your dictonary for "Sarcasm", you'll probably find a answer that's multiple pages long and written in some mysterious language. But for the internet you don't need a exact definition of Sarcasm, you need the understanding of it. Just remember: Something that seems untrue or hurting without any reason can be either a) untrue and senseless or b) sarcasm .
This may seem a bit too easy, but it's mostly right. Now you only must think about your own sanity and decide if you want to read it as form a and be hurted or angry or as form be and be happy. There was a pretty good example linked in this forum. It lead to a mod-forum where someone asked a question about DayOfDefeat. the other memebers started a weird discussion about mods and mixed them up, saying "hey, DoD, isn't that this crappy TerrorVsAntiterror-Thingie? I like FLF more, there you can build up your base and become a immortal hero...". This went on untill someone of the DoD-Forums posted a link in the DoD-forums and there the DoD-Community showed their bad side and flamed the first mod-forum-members for beeing lame and knowing nothing.
This is a perfect example of sarcasm not noticed...
Sometimes the sarcasm isn't so obvious and you must use your imagination to say if something is serious (seriousness is very rare in the net) or a joke. If someone in the forums reply to a question "I'll kill your family" you can be pretty sure that's a joke.
So what I want to say:
Either learn the meaning of sarcasm or prepare to get injured and confused to insanity!
A small note for people who know and use sarcasm: Mark sarcastic comments with smilies!
Comments
anyways, u are 100%true and i saw the stupid misunderstanding at dod, and it was really sad to see that
so guys, use or imagination......
So true, so true.
Sarcasm is here, was here, will always be here. Bear it and smile.
<u>Sarcasm:</u>
NastyPerson: You and your family small like mouldy cheese!
Scythe-: Haahahaha
NastyPerson: teehehee
<u>Lack of sarcasm:</u>
NastyPerson: You and your family small like mouldy cheese!
Scythe-: You bastage! Take that back or I'll hunt you down and make you look at my baby photos and then kill you by repeated clubbing with my TelliTubbies coffee cup!!!
NastyPerson: I'll hate you forever now!!!
See? Sarcasm is an important part of online communication because we don't have any of the usual facial and body language cues to guide our conversations.
--Scythe--
<a href="mailto:the_only_scythe@subdimension.com">the_only_scythe@subdimension.com</a>
<u>Sarcasm:</u>
NastyPerson: You and your family small like mouldy cheese!
Scythe-: Haahahaha
NastyPerson: teehehee
<u>Lack of sarcasm:</u>
NastyPerson: You and your family small like mouldy cheese!
Scythe-: You bastage! Take that back or I'll hunt you down and make you look at my baby photos and then kill you by repeated clubbing with my TelliTubbies coffee cup!!!
NastyPerson: I'll hate you forever now!!!
See? Sarcasm is an important part of online communication because we don't have any of the usual facial and body language cues to guide our conversations.
--Scythe--
<a href="mailto:the_only_scythe@subdimension.com">the_only_scythe@subdimension.com</a><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
ROFL! That why a always keep "teh Heheh c4nn0n" fully stocked. And why I never say bastage <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->