This is a new one to me:

[conuly]

"close be-hide" for "close behind".

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Comments

[marahmarie]

"close be-hide" for "close behind"

A deep-seeded dilemna for sure :/

[conuly]

It's always a good idea to spell out your sarcasm.

Funny you should say that...

[marahmarie]

I was thinking about just this thing when I edited it - like, is it a good idea to spell out my sarcasm because of say, stereotypes around my education or lack thereof, or because no one will get it if I don't, people will just generally think I don't know how certain phrases are worded and/or how to spell?

And if it's the latter, what presumptions do I seem to be making about the intelligence of my/our readership? That they're not smart enough to see that I a) I misworded and/or misspelled anything up there or b) that they *are* smart enough to see it but not smart enough to know I did it on purpose?

And all of this is why I hate seeing others use or using the s/ tag myself, The End.

Re: Funny you should say that...

[conuly]

Yeah, but on the flipside, people miss sarcasm ALL THE TIME and it's always annoying on all sides when that happens.

Re: Funny you should say that...

[marahmarie]

Well, if the intended sarcasm comes off as malicious then yeah, that's worse than annoying, it's a battlefield. People do this in talking, too, they don't get sarcasm, and it can just rip things apart in ways the sarcastic person might not have intended (unless they're being passively-aggressively sarcastic, in which case we're talking turtles all the way down).

But for light/obviously non-aggressive repartee as seen above sometimes I think it just adds too many layers of complexity to even have to denote that it's sarcasm! That said, I did it anyhow *sigh*