XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Sump wrote:   
   > Mike Easter wrote:   
   >> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Ha!  I like sarchasm :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> That must be the name for the gap between what the original speaker/writer   
   >>> meant, and what the listener/reader thought they meant ...   
   >>   
   >> More specifically, the commonplace gap between the transmitter's   
   >> 'attempt' to transmit irony or sarcasm, but somewhere along the way the   
   >> irony/sarcasm didn't register correctly on the receiver.   
   >>   
   >> Then, the blame-game is on the transmitter, the medium, or the receiver;   
   >> or perhaps more than one of them.   
   >   
   > Then perhaps users of sarcasm should reduce their quality of levity so that   
   all can understand.   
      
   My philosophy is that if a transmission doesn't work properly, to look   
   at the whole package, not just one end or the other or what is in between.   
      
   Just like, if a joke doesn't work/ has to be explained/ something went   
   wrong somewhere.  The comedian, the audience, the mood of the room.   
      
   "Don't you get it?" is the 'wrong' question.  The question is 'what went   
   wrong?'   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)