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I've noticed Americans don't really "get" it when you use sarcastic understatement. They tend to say what they mean and mean what they say, and expect everyone else to do the same.

That or its just sampling bias. What do you think?
 
Treble said:
I've noticed Americans don't really "get" it when you use sarcastic understatement. They tend to say what they mean and mean what they say, and expect everyone else to do the same.

That or its just sampling bias. What do you think?
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A lot of it is the lack of body language and tone . I freely admit that in internet conversation, I have a hard time picking up sarcasm in American English sarcastic comments generally entail some degree of body language transmitting or signaling
 
Imperator Pax said:
A lot of it is the lack of body language and tone
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Also requires a certain level of paying attention to the other person and having a level of preexisting understanding of what they do and say. It's easier to spot sarcasm from someone who is known for being sarcastic.

Treble's problem is as much 'everyone is so accustomed to him being unironically stupid that they fail to realize when he tries ironic stupidity' as it is anything else.
 
TanaNari said:
Treble's problem is as much 'everyone is so accustomed to him being unironically stupid that they fail to realize when he tries ironic stupidity' as it is anything else.
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Also, of course, it's possible for a person to be sarcastically pretending to be stupid, and yet also organically stupid in a non-sarcastic sense, both at the same time.

So people calling him stupid might not be missing his point, but rather pointing out something else.
 
Does anyone here know about Pokegirls? 2001 origin date, QQ level of degeneracy, post-apocalyptic world loosely based on pokemon with anthropomorphic pokegirls... weird rabbit hole to fall at 2 am.
 
TroubleFait said:
Vaguely heard about it here on QQ iirc, but no explanation was provided.
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Long story short: a setting inspired by Pokemon where the majority of women have been turned into nyphomaniac monstergirls styled after Pokemon in a post-apocalyptic Earth after some journo-bitch smeared the inventor of said Pokegirls. Feel free to ask further questions.
 
otoshi17Good said:
Does anyone here know about Pokegirls? 2001 origin date, QQ level of degeneracy, post-apocalyptic world loosely based on pokemon with anthropomorphic pokegirls... weird rabbit hole to fall at 2 am.
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My uneducated outsider impression is that it was basically co-opted by Monster Girl Encyclopedia and that setting took away attention from the Pokegirl fandom by delivering the same experience but with a lot more flexibility in terms of fetishes *and* lower chance of getting sued by Nintendo.
 
Scygnus said:
Original Fic that started it all is still there

Wild. Not sure whether the author posts now, or if he still posts. I remember finding a site with a lot of links to other works, including the backstory, but this is, as I understand it, the actual first original work that kicked off the whole shebang.
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Nah the author left in 2001, the original was Wild Horses and Pokegirls. you can read it in the link that I provided, the page that it redirects you is so old that it specifies that the chapters are in HTML format.
 
Is Grammerly Pro worth the money? The free version is pretty decent from what I have seen, but it looks like the Pro version can do a lot more.
 
I don't understand why people are telling me I shouldn't be worried about the pacing of my story. I just want things to flow perfectly, I don't care if I've already published those chapters.
 
Daytripper said:
I don't understand why people are telling me I shouldn't be worried about the pacing of my story. I just want things to flow perfectly, I don't care if I've already published those chapters.
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Speaking from personal experience, wanting things to flow perfectly - among other things, mind - led to a multiple year hiatus that I'm still struggling to find my way out of.
 


For anybody who hasn't seen it, Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC on May 16.
 
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