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lovelle
2788 days ago
Yeah sure, and if you like I can also clean the bathrooms because I know how to do it... Off-time is for your own not for your company regardless off what you do with it.
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ganomi
2788 days ago
The /s stands for sarcasm
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skrebbel
2788 days ago
No it doesn't, it stands for "This used to be sarcasm but I ruined it by telling you"
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MaxBarraclough
2788 days ago
People use it for a reason. Intended tone does not carry reliably over text.
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kbenson
2788 days ago
I've always wondered whether /s predates, was a concurrent development, or is an evolutionary shortening of </sarcasm>.
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mcbits
2788 days ago
The history went something like this:
jk </sarcasm> <sarcasm>...</sarcasm> </sarcasm> /sarcasm /sarc /s \s
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iddan
2788 days ago
βΈ®
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
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izzydata
2788 days ago
This punctuation is very ironic.
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joejerryronnie
2788 days ago
It also stands for "hitting over head with hammer"
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