Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Sarcasm II - A Way to Show You Care minus the Actual Effort

First of all, read the post about Sarcasm ("New Stuff and Sarcasm) before reading this (Part II)

My dad suggested there be an emoticon of some sort that show sarcasm, and I thought that was a great idea. There are some others, such as a :P, but there should be one directly related to sarcasm.

So, here's my challa- Sorry, let me start over.

ITLTDIMS CHALLENGE!!!
(I'm Too Lazy To Do It Myself Challenge)
BTW, you pronounce it "Ittle-T-Dims."

Anyway, I need you to come up with an acronym, emoticon, or keyboard art that symbolizes the use of sarcasm. And it can't just be your pet or something. It has to have an actual meaning or something along those line. Wanna give it a shot? Comment on this post, or e-mail me at rct2guy@hotmail.com

EDIT: Apparently, someone has the same idea. I'll convey some of their ideas.

" I’ve always been fond of the *snerk*. I picked it up years ago back in the days of fandom mailings lists, and it’s stuck ever since. I have been known to actually say “snerk” to people in real life.

For example: Man, Toby, the background to your website is so bright that I can’t read any of the text. *snerk*" -Johanna L. Gribble


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The most common one I’ve seen is /sarcasm at the end of the sarcastic remark. Similar to the /sarcasm/ tag, but without HTML problems." - Sarah Miller


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I’ve been thinking about this lately as well. Most of my comments are made with a smirky smile on my face, and I think that humor or jest is being lost in the reading. Most times I just use a smilie, to say I’m not being serious about this (but then I also use it to say I’m happy about something). Sometimes I use the wink smilie ;), or if it’s self deprecating, the off kilter smilie :\." - Steve Buchheit

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Sometimes people don’t pick up on my sarcasm in real life, either. I do like this idea though, and I hope we can find one and start spreading it through emails everywhere!

Does this mean anything yet? It looks kind of smug, but maybe it’ll do for sarcasm too:

:-\

Or perhaps this, which is a bit more deadpan, like my usual delivery:

:-|

But I bet those are taken already." -Eugene

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I mostly use the wink smile, too: ;-) As if I’m denoting a joke, see? But I also like *snerk*. I tend to be sarcastic almost all the time, though, so I really should have a tag that designates when I’m not *snerking*. That’d probably look like / ;-) which seems too complicated." - Rachel

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The :-) smiley was intended to convey sarcasm. At least it was according to it’s inventor.

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