
From the Vault: The Dad Joke
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Ironic Punctuation in Writing
i was thinking that it might be worth doing an episode on the idea of ironic punctuation. People sometimes fail to detect irony and sarcasm in written media. If you have a character third person, and their being sarcastic, you're supposed to say a he said sarcastically. And then the reater will know that this character is being sarcastic or she said ironically. That's just good writing. I'm being sarcastic? A saya, well, brings me back to this paper you mentioned from 19 90. Was that the ear? I think it was.
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