Post History
In novels you can parse sarcasm because you know the characters, specifically you know what they know and how they think, so you know the difference between a serious suggestion and a flip suggesti...
Answer
#4: Attribution notice removed
by
System
·
2019-12-19T22:13:43Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/43976 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#3: Attribution notice added
by
System
·
2019-12-08T11:29:47Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/43976 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
In novels you can parse sarcasm because you know the characters, specifically you know what they know and how they think, so you know the difference between a serious suggestion and a flip suggestion. I've written a sarcastic retort by a character in one of my stories, and my first reader got it immediately; because the character was making a suggestion completely out of her personality. So it _had_ to be sarcasm, and that's how it was read and it was found funny to get a laugh (even though the character was frustrated with the stubbornness of another character). You cannot duplicate that in an internet post except with friends that get your personality. Absent that relationship, then in that venue, you need to make your sarcastic responses a bit over the top, so they seem outlandish enough to make the reader think twice about how serious you are being. Either that, or include a rolling-eyes emoji, if possible.
#1: Imported from external source
by
System
·
2019-03-23T22:29:07Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 6