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"I am unprepared for people who don't understand jokes" -- Anton Troynikov I don't know who he is but I really like this quote. That's consistently my biggest
by projectramo 8y ago
"I am unprepared for people who don't understand jokes" -- Anton Troynikov
I don't know who he is but I really like this quote. That's consistently my biggest surprise on the internet. The #1 question I get for my posts is "Is that sarcasm?"
I never answer.
- 21 8y ago> I never answer. That might cause you to be declared a "class enemy". The downfall will be swift.
- deadmetheny 8y agoThat sentence pretty well summarizes why I don't really like using Twitter.
- MaxBarraclough 8y agoSarcasm doesn't always carry clearly through text-based media. I wouldn't be so sure that the reader is always at fault.
- projectramo 8y agoAre you kidding?
- saiya-jin 8y agoit doesn't have to be even on sarcasm level, sometimes i get misunderstanding on elementary level, ie when texting my fiancee, meaning somebody who is the closest person to me for years. once you don't see face of the other person clearly, misunderstandings will happen, better learn how minimize them or you and people around you will suffer from unnecessary conflicts
- lostconfused 8y agoI can't imagine why that would be intended to be humuoruos. The content of the post seems like a genuine attempt at trying to point out the potential flaws in purely text based communication via internet. To expand on such, text doesn't carry any of the social cues that human beings learn during their development. There's no facial expressions, tone of voice, any form of body language such as posture or hand gestures. Communicating and being understood via text is very difficult, especially when one is attempting to be succinct. "Brevity is the soul of wit" does not only mean that one should strive to be brief but also that it takes great ability to accomplish such a feat aswell.
- loco5niner 8y agoI agree with that statement. Even face to face, sometimes sarcasm is not presented well enough for others to catch. *edit. Maybe that was sarcasm....
- rgrieselhuber 8y agoThis is one of many reasons that McLuhan attributed text-based media to symptoms of civilizations already in decline.
- Mikho 8y agoThat's why they invented emoji
- Semirhage 8y agoIronic that this is getting so much traction on HN, where humor is actively crushed with downvotes and flags most of the time. I’m not even disagreeing with the rationale of keeping the site for intellectual inquiry rather than endlessly nested references and jokes. A lot of what people think of as humorous is inherently off topic or frankly not very funny or relevant. Sadly though, I’ve seen some genuinely funny and original comments die hard because of an institutional stance against humor. It probably doesn’t help that there are some inveterate literalists about...
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y ago> It probably doesn’t help that there are some inveterate literalists about... about what?
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- joejerryronnie 8y agoYour dissent is quickly being crushed into oblivion.
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- stcredzero 8y ago> there are some inveterate literalists about... Better inveterate literalists than invertebrate figurativists.
- zerostar07 8y agoSarcasm and humor are a big deal. They are active attempts to identify resonance with a crowd and common ground, and can be used to assess if there is a strong cultural basis in a community. In the internet it's become very hard to have cohesive communities, so sarcasm has to be labeled (perhaps hoping that it will help people learn to identify it without labels in the future - in vain, i think).
- arethuza 8y ago"Sarcasm and humor are a big deal" - I would say practically a way of life here in the UK.... [Edit: I got a severe telling off once from an Intel lawyer for using very mild humour in a conference call.... I learned my lesson. I think in the middle of a multi hour conference call of mind numbing tedium I said 'I'm not sure what a Quad Pump AGP Port is but I want one...' - I got a bollocking for a good 15 minutes].
- joejerryronnie 8y agoThat's the man trying to keep you down. You should have made it a point in every subsequent meeting with that lawyer to ask about the progress on getting you that Quad Pump AGP Port.
- stcredzero 8y agoIn the internet it's become very hard to have cohesive communities, so sarcasm has to be labeled Sarcasm can be culturally dependent. As a child and high schooler, I thought that my parents didn't understand sarcasm. I remember when I realized that my immigrant parents just had a different form of it than I did in grade school and high school.
- naveen99 8y ago> I never answer Is that because you are trolling ?
- sigfubar 8y agoJokes? The tweetstorm is funny because it's true.
- KirinDave 8y agoYeah, like how you're not allowed to deviate from the views espoused by the ruling political party's policy in public. That one really was super insightful and true.
- vsl 8y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash-against-brendan-eich-crossed-a-line/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/the-culture-wars-have-come-to-silicon-valley.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/the-culture-wa... https://www.google.com/search?q=James+Damore https://www.google.com/search?q=James+Damore ?
- KirinDave 8y agoDamore's anti-feminist routine lines up with the general philosophy of the American political party that controls the house, sentate, and a growing majority on the supreme court. We're literally contemplating how soon before Roe v. Wade will be nullified over here. Damore's poorly constructed arguments also line up with the suggestions of so-called rationalist personalities online and in print, who have major media distribution and significant representation in media that the American government favors (by not relentlessly attacking). Tell me again how the ruling party controls everything around you, comrade. But while you're at it, we could maybe talk about how it's not okay to fire Damore for saying women should be paired up to code because they're genetically predisposed to be less good at it, but it's evidently extremely good that Tesla uses at-will employment to fire potential union organizers. We can find out how deep the rabbit hole of his victim complex is together. I brought rope and torches!
- harambae 8y ago
- stcredzero 8y ago"I am unprepared for people who don't understand jokes" -- Anton Troynikov No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!