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(37,322 posts)I certainly am. Sometimes the thingy is needed.
Cheezoholic
(2,018 posts)I can see springs snappin' around here a lot of times lol. But considering the overall environment the last 7 years its to be expected
Skittles
(153,150 posts)yes INDEED
elleng
(130,878 posts)each to their own taste.
"personally, I'd prefer a soft cow's milk cheese, but as they say chacun à son goût"
Igel
(35,300 posts)To each his (own) taste.
Morphed commonly in some backwaters to "chacun a son gout" (each to his own taste).
My brief stint of learning French was European, not Canadian.
elleng
(130,878 posts)Long Island NY. THIS quoted above: Definitions from Oxford Languages
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(52,205 posts)"A chacun" is more literary, that might be preferred in books or more formally, but I never heard that construction when I was in France.
To be fair, that was decades ago, and such things change over time.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)Perhaps this is like the death of satire?
These days it's difficult to tell reality from a humorous fake.
betsuni
(25,475 posts)a certain percentage of DU is depressed and has other mental issues.
But then, so does the U.S. population as a whole.
I just wish they wouldn't come on this board and project their negative point of view, prognosticating that trump will never be held to account; Santos either.
I think it's a form of acting out but it has the overall effect of making other posters feel like the state of affairs is hopeless. I don't like to see that because nothing's perfect and that's our job as humans: to make things better.
The majority of people give a fair assessment in their opinions, however.
OTOH, most republicans are out and out sociopaths, and I am not exaggerating. The rubes who vote for them are suckers.
So I'll take a percentage of people depressed over The Criminal Party any day.
former9thward
(31,987 posts)Ok, Dr., thanks for the diagnosis...
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)NJCher
(35,660 posts)after you read an example, you're supposed to extrapolate.
Also, it's not the POV, it's the consistent negativity, the complete and total hopelessness. It's the same people, over and over and over.
It almost always takes the form of prognostication.
If you fit into that category, just think about your effect on the overall cause.
Consider the fact that a message board is not the appropriate outlet for such feelings. I'm not talking just about DU, I'm talking about any political message board.
There is a mental health forum here. Perhaps that is an appropriate outlet.
Excellently stated.
Yes, as the stressors in the world increase in number and severity some will turn to sarcasm as a means of coping, while others will have no patience for anything but clear and sincere communication. And then theres the group who rely on their own pessimism to see themselves through, constantly guarding themselves from any possible disappointment. They are to be pitied.
Theres also, unfortunately, the type who intentionally spread negativity as a means of subtle mind control, sapping our energy and making it more difficult to effect positive change in the world. They are to be shunned.
dpibel
(2,831 posts)IMHO
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(52,205 posts)Well, for some it's something in their dna, for others it's cultural. Brits tend to use sarcasm a lot, so they are better at picking up on it. But not all Brits...
America isn't nearly as big on sarcasm, so even people who could learn simply aren't exposed to it enough.
multigraincracker
(32,674 posts)on a certain spectrum of psych pathology. I now have a future brother-in-law that is on the autism spectrum. He does not understand humor. My bad.
Ocelot II
(115,681 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)dpibel
(2,831 posts)Subject line: Awesome text from my daughter: "There's an active shooter at my old barracks" Ft Carson, CO
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)for what had been painted as a life-or-death situation.
BigmanPigman
(51,588 posts)That is one reason why I add the thing to my sarcastic posts and comments. I think that facial expressions and tone of voice help me to identify if someone is being sarcastic. I could never tell when my dad was sarcastic and neither could half of my mother's family, which was often amusing.
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)Sarcasm is hard to do on the internet, especially when you also are not acquainted with the person expressing the thought.
And with the outlandish crap hitting the fan for real lately, some stuff is hard to distinguish.
I was all worked up about something to do with a Medicare/Social Security program and it turned out to be just a hypothesis.
Yes, I am wound too tight. But that hypothesis COULD have been real. And thats what was scary.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)there are those here who actively look for posts to alert on because they don't like the poster's point of view. So the sarcasm thingy is needed for clarification.
Shouldn't be, but is.
Ocelot II
(115,681 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)And yes I sometimes miss the satire.
Edit: FFS
How much longer does it take to add the sarcasm emoji? Lazy?
Raine
(30,540 posts)we have and to use.
claudette
(3,550 posts)chowder66
(9,067 posts)claudette
(3,550 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)claudette
(3,550 posts)What do you mean. I think I missed the post
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)ColinC
(8,291 posts)On message boards and written speech, sarcasm must be defined in other ways.
but in the field of speech communication, "tone" communicates the emotional "take" on the situation.
Cha
(297,180 posts)everyone's Sarcasm.
It doesn't hurt.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)Karma13612
(4,552 posts)❤️
Skittles
(153,150 posts)it's as if people have no clue they can simply IGNORE a post
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)Misinterprets something as real, and it involves some new Republican legislation-from-hades, then a sarcasm tag is needed.
I was tripped up by a post on a Social Security/Medicare pilot program. Turns out it was a harmless joke.
It shook me up because I know that is something The Republicans are eager to do, cut the social safety net.
A sarcasm tag would have been helpful. I researched the topic and determined there was no proposed pilot program. At 69, this kinda stuff is scary as 💩.
elocs
(22,569 posts)somebody will completely agree with it and shout, "Amen!" And providing a label that indicates it is sarcasm pretty much defeats the point of making it.
Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)What most of us here DON'T need to do is make a thread complaining about that fact.