Post #3631749
2026-07-06 16:11 UTC
@mxchara@seattle.pink saying that sarcasm doesn't involve the speaker's intent feels "wrong" to me, that's like saying that something is "a joke" even if you say it by accident. I would say that a joke is something told with the intent of being funny, and if you do it by accident it's just a gaffe. But, again, I see now how this might be a weak distinction.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-06 16:13
@nycki@critters.gay yeah! I feel as if we're perhaps working from slightly different personal definitions of "sarcasm". I'm a old old person and I studied Latin and Greek and such tiresome things in school and thus came to regard sarcasm as a rhetorical weapon with a precise purpose (and thus not to be slung about casually, whence it really isn't proper sarcasm any more but rather just a sour speaking mood.)