Sarcasm is a tricky one to use on the internet. People have bizarre understandings of what things mean, and unless they know you IRL and can imagine you saying them, then often meaning is lost and it can seem hurtful, rather than gently mocking in a matey fashion, even dire swearwords can be matey terms of endearment if said jovially.
One thing I always get (Deservedly to an extent) is people thinking I am very angry about a subject when I post. I’m not, I generally am using dry humour and gentle sarcasm, sometimes a dash of hyperbole, but the one thing I also use, that makes people think that, is lots of words. I’m the same In real life, an absolute chatterbox, it has been said of me “He’ll never use one word, where ten will do”.
Totally guilty as charged.
But yeah, Text based communication is the worst for conveying meaning, and yet it being crisp and clinical, should surely be the best?
Nope. It is good for blunt facts, We get most of our social nuances from body language, which makes sense, If I call someone a D**khead it can look jovial if accompanied by a slow shake of the head and a grin. If I just type it out it becomes an insult. We get less from Pitch and Tone, how we say things, the emphasis we put on words, the absolute worst, the nadir, the creepy uncle who lives under the stairs, is Text Based communication. There is no body language, pitch or tone, just words. Even Emoji’s have passed their sell-by-date and are no longer useful, as so many people use them sarcastically to mean the opposite of what they are meant to mean.
Text only is good for Legal contracts or Engineering manuals, things that deal in cold, hard facts with no ambiguity, for anything else, its bleedin’ rubbish.
Back on track, I have yet to see a classic fan make a constructive post, only whinges about how much better Classic was, and how Retail is going to die.
Ironically, these people are sowing the seeds of Classic’s own downfall. I don’t want to play a game with such negative nancies, it sounds like the community will be awful, they seem like an unpleasant bunch who want to widdle on someone elses bonfire so that theirs looks brighter.
Not exactly giving a stellar image there…
You can generally depend upon the fact that anyone using those epithets is rather intellectually bankrupt. I especially love, as a man in my mid-forties, being told I am a 12 year old, when the chances are high I am old enough to be the insulting parties biological parent. If so, I would send them to bed without any supper, and teach them some manners!