At 01:53 PM 7/30/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>1. It wasn't irony, it was sarcasm (source: John Giorgis, off-list)
Well, I'd characterize it as both. The source of the irony was the
sarcasm, and vice versa.
>2. It wasn't marked as ironic or sarcastic; John should have used smileys or
>pseudo-HTML like '<sarcasm>'
Eh, I think that might have ruined the effect. Besides, given that my
position on this issue is no secret, I would have thought it blatantly
obvious.
JDG
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