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| barnard, 1996 cricket world cup, yiddish, anime rape, 1999 cricket world cup, legalprofessionals, satire, rapeporn, case law, wage and hour, | My father-in-law gets a warm a look in his eye and says to me, "Can you imagine your life without children?" And I say, "I imagine it on a a daily basis!" If I had written that down and passed it to him on a note, I could have said, "I imagine it on a daily basis¡" and we all could have had a good laugh. As it was, my husband laughed, I laughed, my father-in-law looked uncomfortable and then joined in half-heartedly, not really getting it, and my mother-in-law just frowned. So a clearly we need some kind of sarcasm semaphore -- especially for mothers, who are taken so seriously, especially in conversations about children. Any children. Even theoretical children. Actually, a sarcasm semaphore might not go far enough. I think we need something to signal that what we are saying is the exact opposite of what we mean. |
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| It's a JOKE! Over at Slate last week, satire Josh Greenman introduced the idea of sarcasm punctuation. I think it's a great idea¡ Seriously¡ No, okay, now I'm really serious -- it would definitely come in handy for those e-mail conversations where you want satire to make sure the other person knows you're being sarcastic without having to resort to using one of those "emoticons." But what about in actual, face-to-face conversation? There should be some kind of hand satire signal (other than the obvious) to let those unschooled in the subtleties of human interaction in on the fact that you are being facetious. In fact, that would have come in handy last night at dinner with the in-laws. Example: My father-in-law sits on the couch, watching the kids as they run through the house chasing each other and yelling about their presents. They are happy, but by this point in the day, I have broken up 253 fights between them and have made at least one of them cry by threatening to cancel Christmas and return the Hannukah presents too if she doesn't stop trying to walk on her baby brother in high-heeled princess shoes. |
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