And even if I don’t say anything… It’s just because I’m suppressing my natural instinct in the pursuit of not being an outcast.
By PETER STULTS on every day posters every day.
But there is one grammatical mistake that I particularly enjoy encountering. It has become almost fun for me to come across people who take the phrase “a lot” and condense it down into one word, because when someone says “alot,” this is what I imagine:
The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people’s grammar. It kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug, and it has provided hours of entertainment for me in a situation where I’d normally be left feeling angry and disillusioned with the world.
For example, when I read the sentence “I care about this alot,” this is what I imagine:
If someone says something like “I feel lonely alot” or “I’m angry alot,” I’m going to imagine them standing there with an emo haircut, sharing their feelings with an Alot.
Read the whole brilliant post on how alot’s can help you cope with people’s spelling errors on Hyperbole and a Half
After we split off to our separate practice debates, we rejoined to discuss the tournament and otherwise brainstorm.
Rachel’s first statement, was a reassertion that the resolution is grammatically incorrect, and she thus couldn’t figure out a case.
It was pointed out that we were there for LD, not grammar. But as we discovered, the resolution’s meaning is quite different when we understand its actual meaning.
see more from: NCFCA’s 2010 LD Resolution is Grammatically Incorrect
I propose a new HTML tag…
sarcasm in hereThis would work wonderfully on people’s weblogs to convey this important verbal communication which is very often lost on print.
From Things to Think About — The Garret
I have suggested using the tilde ( ~ ) for this punctuation mark.
How many time have you gotten angry, or confused by a typed post because it’s was being sarcastic? How many flame wars could have been ended sooner?
A lot of what is sarcasm is verbal tone and body language. Difficult to capture in writing, especially in IMs, and blogs where the writing is immediately back and forth.
Fadtastic — Friday Fun: The sarcasm tag
I call for the
tag.
Of course every new tag needs a default rendering style by the browsers. And as sarcasm is a form of humour, why not render in bold Comic Sans like the following? (assuming you have this great font installed)The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
And there we go. Sarcasm solved.
From Slate — A Giant Step Forward for Punctuation¡]
It is time for the adoption of the sarcasm point. Why the sarcasm point? We have a mark that conveys that we mean or know something. We have one that says it with volume and force! We have one that communicates that we don’t know something, don’t we? We need one more: to do for language what shade did for drawing, what color did for television, and what eyebrows did for expressions—introduce finesse.
See, there are people who are relentlessly sincere. So, what are they supposed to do when they’re trying to sound a bit bitter?
And then there are people who are relentlessly sarcastic. How do we know when they’re being straight?
From Fluther.com — Who else thinks we should have punctuation to denote sarcasm?]
Sarcasm is indeed very difficult to convey properly in written form. Especially friendly, genial sarcasm, because it invariably gets interpreted as mean and hostile.
About the only punctuation I can think of is to add a wink smiley at the end, ;-) or maybe >:^>. (Of course, that’s only useful for the friendly, genial sarcasm. For hostile sarcasm, no smiley at all… and, even then you hafta hope that the intended recipient is smart enough to pick up on it.)
via Language Log — Punctuation, now with heightened indifference!
No punctuation mark currently exists in the English language which connotes a feeling of mild joy, vague happiness, or heightened indifference. … A new punctuation mark is required for this new age where we are defined by our lack of true highs and lows.
Ambrose Beirce long ago suggested a mark.
There is already a Sarcasm Mark and an Irony Mark, but I’m not convinced by either.
Is a sarcasm mark absurd or useful? If a mark would be beneficial, what should it be?
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