Friday, December 23, 2011

How To Do Sarcasm Online

Its an Arial font that leans to the left...

Glen McAnally: Official Site Of The Sarcastic Font Movement

Guardian UK: At last: how to do sarcasm online

3 Comments:

Blogger Ed said...

Hm, doesn't sarcasm need ambiguity?

10:33 PM  
Blogger Sande said...

The quality and effectiveness of the alleged sarcasm is in the mind of the sarcastee...

7:40 AM  
Blogger Ed said...

Yes, exactly.

Printing sarcasm in a different typefont would disable the subtle irono-mechanism that's at work.

The way to prevent hurt feelings online is to learn to do sarcasm in a less hamhanded way.

8:11 AM  

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