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>"Craig : Hahaha." What is the point of including this?
by a_small_island 10y ago
>"Craig : Hahaha."
What is the point of including this?
- ianstormtaylor 10y agoOff topic, but interesting question I think. I personally liked its addition. If you read it again, the "Hahaha." adds an extra pause that makes the ridiculousness of waiting for the ticker to come on screen sink in. The same way someone telling that story in person would pause. It makes it feel more like a real conversation. Without it the reader would have moved on to the next paragraph too quickly.
- mturmon 10y agoI also thought it didn't work. Sometimes it's rendered as: Craig: (laughter) which avoids the somewhat square "hahaha" construction.
- mafribe 10y agoI interpret this as a rhetorical technique with the following purposes. - Give the illusion that the interview is raw, unedited, so closer to truth. - Elevates the social status of the interviewer, because he's on joking terms with interviewee.