• Flibbertigibbet@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The hilarious thing is, this letter is absolutely intended humourously. It’s from the comic Viz, and the “Letterbocks” section regularly contains jokes and letters mocking the letters sent into newspapers.

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      Almost certainly, the British do sarcasm in a way that the colonials just don’t get.

      Lemmies are often too autistic to realize this.

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      Maybe attempted satire, but definitely not from a hilarious person. Once you’ve met these people in the wild, these jokes stop being funny.

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        They’re letters arranged in a sentence and people assume you can here the emotive voice in their head when they wrote it. This is why the /s exists. Without it sometimes people can’t tell and rightly so. Not using and /s and thinking you’ve wooshed someone can be ironic