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Ooh. I didn’t see the posts on sarcasm. I have similar issues. I’m quite deadpan when I am sarcastic and often people think I’m being serious – no matter how obvious it seems to me.
eg when I was studying (English lit) someone made a negative comment about Shakespeare and I leapt to his defence (why? He’s dead. Why does he need defending!?)
Anyway, so I said, ‘Yeah. His writing is full of cliches. Couldn’t he have come up with something original to say?’ Given that he coined most of these phrases that are so over used now, I thought this would be obvious to the group (who were after all studying him) but my tutor was horrified. Duh!
It makes me really embarrassed then I can’t point out that I was just being sarcastic and people think I just don’t know what I’m talking about. Grrr!
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