Nuance, undertones, rhetorical questions may as well as not exist for some of these good fellows. I must remind myself that even though someone (many someones) might lack in this department, that doesn’t mean they aren’t brighter than me in many other things.
I am curious though. How, if you are aware of this, do you watch spy, palace intrigue, double agent, psychological movies? Isn’t it detrimental to fully enjoy the acting and reading actors expressions and nuances? I guess you wouldn’t be aware that you are missing full experience?
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It’s not about me by the way, it is from the perspective of a spectator, a lurker and not about me receiving some kind of response.
A lot of irony is supposed to be deadpan anyway (e.g. something like okmatewanker is pretty heavily ironic), but I get people not picking it up because they’re not in the same cultural context. Sarcasm tags make sense because sarcasm is about tone of voice, but a lot of people suggest them inappropriately as sarcasm is more caustic. It’s like telling people they should be offended at your tone!
Got some example for ya from my latest lurking tho I failed to lurk this time and may get dragged into some keyboard warfare (never do this)
https://lemm.ee/post/61047031/19626665
Look at this person I reply to talking something about entitlement misunderstanding everything as much as you can. This is routine
Of course this can be a bad actor in this example but there are so many of these misunderstandings in various contexts that it is painful to read the comments a lot of times
I’m with e8d79 on that one. Whatever your intent when posting the original message, the way it reads is tone deaf at best and entitled at worst.