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To: Rennes Templar
Sarcasm doesn't translate well in writing. It depends on tone of voice as well as facial expression. Deadpan tone with a roll of the eyes is a sure sign of sarcasm.

In reading what someone has written it's best to take what is written at face value unless someone uses the /<sarcasm tag. It is why it was invented and it's use means you don't have to have the ability to read someones mind to know what their intentions are.

34 posted on 01/16/2009 11:48:16 AM PST by monday
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To: monday

Beginning a sentence with “Yeah” and ending with “hehe” certainly would lend one toward a literary interpretation of sarcasm, or at least a tone of non-seriousness.


35 posted on 01/16/2009 1:20:12 PM PST by Rennes Templar (The Messiah and the Religion of Fleece)
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