I’d have to hear the voice mail message to believe what you’re saying. In my daily life, when one of my friends says, “That’s great. Just great” it’s totally clear whether he’s being sarcastic or not. Because he intends to sound sarcastic, and changes his inflection.
Now in this case the message was the same, so the inflection didn’t carry any content. But the subjects were told Mark was leaving a message for his friend. So it’s a reasonable assumption that Mark is using an inflection that his friend will recognize as sarcasm. I would assume that unless, as in the second case, they told me he was trying not to show sarcasm.
I’d have to hear the voice mail message to believe what you’re saying. In my daily life, when one of my friends says, “That’s great. Just great” it’s totally clear whether he’s being sarcastic or not. Because he intends to sound sarcastic, and changes his inflection.
Now in this case the message was the same, so the inflection didn’t carry any content. But the subjects were told Mark was leaving a message for his friend. So it’s a reasonable assumption that Mark is using an inflection that his friend will recognize as sarcasm. I would assume that unless, as in the second case, they told me he was trying not to show sarcasm.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2868
(Yes, I know I’m replying to a 2007 comment with a link to a 2010 blog post.)
Totally reasonable. Unless the tone was “you’d know this if you’d only bothered to read the 2010 post first”.
Which I observed once as a comment to a post by Eliezer linking to a much-later post by Eliezer.
This only seems unreasonable to us because we haven’t yet read the 2015 post about acausal reference.
Well then that commentor should have linked to that 2015 post.
Sadly, the AHTML markup syntax won’t be available until 2017.
Still waiting.
Don’t worry, it will have been available in 2017 one of these days.
We might have missed it.
Hmm, with the proper content-based indexing...