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Sarcasum font!

DP's sarcasum font should be....

  • Arial Black

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  • Book Antiqua

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  • Century Gothic

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Comic Sans MS

    Votes: 5 31.3%

  • Courier New

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  • Fixedsys

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  • Lucida Console

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  • Other font

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Here's a sarcasm smiley we should use instead

    Votes: 3 18.8%

  • Other

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Jerry

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There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

Vote for your choice or write in an alternative. If DP does not have the font you would like, please bring it to Vauge's attention and perhaps he can import it into DP.
 
If people are too stupid to tell the difference between sarcasm and straightforward speech, they're too stupid to use a specially designated font for sarcasm.
 
Sarcasm falls flat mostly because the writer does it poorly.
 
Jerry said:
There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

Vote for your choice or write in an alternative. If DP does not have the font you would like, please bring it to Vauge's attention and perhaps he can import it into DP.
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What?

:confused:

Why do we need this?
 
How about Comic Sans, its pretty jovial.
 
How about Wingdings, and Webdings? The symbols those would allow would be spectacular, as in this modest example:

oftencold-albums-pix-posts-picture1394-font-example.png
 
Jerry said:
:fartThere is a great need for a sarcasm font.

Vote for your choice or write in an alternative. If DP does not have the font you would like, please bring it to Vauge's attention and perhaps he can import it into DP:fart
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Since sarcasm is said to be the lowest form of wit, why not just format sarcastic comments in font size 1? That turns out pretty low. :cool:
 
I think the following smilies are acceptable as a way to indicate sarcasm.
:mrgreen::roll::lol::wink::D:
 
jamesrage said:
I think the following smilies are acceptable as a way to indicate sarcasm.
:mrgreen::roll::lol::wink::D:
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Nah, sarcasm is meant to be dry and cutting, not especially humorous. Putting smilies alongside sarcastic comments would take too much of the edge off in my view.
 
I think, in general, sarcasm should not be used. Irony is much wittier, but it requires recognition of the form, and sufficient intelligence on the part of the employer as well as the reader. It loses its impact if it needs to be followed by a stock identifier.

To use a crude and altogether too obvious example: Americans are generally staunch Monarchists. This is not sarcasm, which is defined as a sneering or cutting remark designed to wound, but irony. Irony is defined as the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Socratic irony is defined as a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. An ironic statement must always be delivered with a straight face, and/or without any written identifier.

And this is a forum, the stock in trade of which is language. Anyone with an insufficient grasp of the language should perhaps look elsewhere to express himself. Of course the primary purpose of language is to convey facts and concepts, but it gains a great deal from being expressive, amusing, and elegant as well.

As Doctor Johnson put it: What is written without effort, is in general, read without pleasure.
 
Leo said:
I think, in general, sarcasm should not be used. Irony is much wittier, but it requires recognition of the form, and sufficient intelligence on the part of the employer as well as the reader. It loses its impact if it needs to be followed by a stock identifier.

To use a crude and altogether too obvious example: Americans are generally staunch Monarchists. This is not sarcasm, which is defined as a sneering or cutting remark designed to wound, but irony. Irony is defined as the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Socratic irony is defined as a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. An ironic statement must always be delivered with a straight face, and/or without any written identifier.

And this is a forum, the stock in trade of which is language. Anyone with an insufficient grasp of the language should perhaps look elsewhere to express himself. Of course the primary purpose of language is to convey facts and concepts, but it gains a great deal from being expressive, amusing, and elegant as well.

As Doctor Johnson put it: What is written without effort, is in general, read without pleasure.
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Oh Leo, that didn't come across at all snobby or elitist.

Okay, maybe that one merited a smiley. :mrgreen:
 
Antagony said:
Nah, sarcasm is meant to be dry and cutting, not especially humorous. Putting smilies alongside sarcastic comments would take too much of the edge off in my view.
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Without something to indicate that it is sarcasm it would be deliberately misconstrued. For example a liberal makes a sarcastic comment that conservatives are the smartest people in the world and then a conservative sees that and says thank you for admitting it.
 
Antagony said:
Oh Leo, that didn't come across at all snobby or elitist.

Okay, maybe that one merited a smiley. :mrgreen:
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Well, I expect that depends upon whether you consider correct usage as being elitist or not. As far as I am concerned, when I post here, I am publishing in a certain sense. I therefore owe it to my readership for my posts to be devoid of solecisms, and as grammatically correct as I am capable. I would also like the language I use to be elegant enough to be interesting to the reader.

Accordingly, I review my posts, and correct any grammatical and/or spelling errors, before submitting them. I do this primarily because, whether it be on a political forum, or in a school assignment, people tend to take you more seriously if you express yourself clearly and moderately well. And secondarily, because it shows respect for those who might read your output.

I am aware that your irony was submitted in a light-hearted vein, nevertheless I think Doctor Johnson's aphorism is not without meaning. ;)
 
Leo said:
Well, I expect that depends upon whether you consider correct usage as being elitist or not. As far as I am concerned, when I post here, I am publishing in a certain sense. I therefore owe it to my readership for my posts to be devoid of solecisms, and as grammatically correct as I am capable. I would also like the language I use to be elegant enough to be interesting to the reader.

Accordingly, I review my posts, and correct any grammatical and/or spelling errors, before submitting them. I do this primarily because, whether it be on a political forum, or in a school assignment, people tend to take you more seriously if you express yourself clearly and moderately well. And secondarily, because it shows respect for those who might read your output.
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All admiral qualities Leo. And, of course, I was only pulling your leg. I fully appreciate the efforts you go to and only wish your kind of dedication was the norm rather than the exception.

I am aware that your irony was submitted in a light-hearted vein, nevertheless I think Doctor Johnson's aphorism is not without meaning. ;)
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Um, well it was sarcasm actually--as indicated by the method I proposed in my first post to this thread--but I'll let that one slide. ;)
 
I think it's a SWELL idea!!!!
 
Yea a sarcasm font that would be a great idea.Lets have someone who cant spell sarcasm decide.
 
mikhail said:
Yea a sarcasm font that would be a great idea.Lets have someone who cant spell sarcasm decide.
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Using such poor punctuation in a sarcastic post about someone else's spelling was brilliantly ironic. Well done!
 
Leo said:
Well, I expect that depends upon whether you consider correct usage as being elitist or not. As far as I am concerned, when I post here, I am publishing in a certain sense. I therefore owe it to my readership for my posts to be devoid of solecisms, and as grammatically correct as I am capable. I would also like the language I use to be elegant enough to be interesting to the reader.

Accordingly, I review my posts, and correct any grammatical and/or spelling errors, before submitting them. I do this primarily because, whether it be on a political forum, or in a school assignment, people tend to take you more seriously if you express yourself clearly and moderately well. And secondarily, because it shows respect for those who might read your output.

I am aware that your irony was submitted in a light-hearted vein, nevertheless I think Doctor Johnson's aphorism is not without meaning. ;)
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Do any of you folks get the feeling that Leo is the sort of lad you'd want for a son, but would be ever so slightly afraid of if he was?


:D
 
Antagony said:
Using such poor punctuation in a sarcastic post about someone else's spelling was brilliantly ironic. Well done!
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yea, i really like your little writing.
 
Antagony said:
Um, well it was sarcasm actually--as indicated by the method I proposed in my first post to this thread--but I'll let that one slide. ;)
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LOLZ! Actually I thought it was quite clever, and not at all nasty, so I took it as irony. :mrgreen:
 
Technically, sarcasm is a variety of irony. [I need a 'pointlessly pedantic' font.]
 
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