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by omginternets
1512 days ago
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Firstly, I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill. The article remains comprehensible on the whole. It’s a good article. What is presumably meant is the following: sarcasm and irony require a lot of skill and nuance to get right, precisely because they can be understood as saying something along with its inverse. More often than not, a sarcastic written comment will divide the audience into people who understood it to say P and those who understood it to say !P. This is especially true when your audience is large, culturally diverse, and (on average) rather literal-minded. But don’t beat yourself up too hard. It’s a good article by any measure, and even more so for someone who is not a native English speaker. |
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