I've had a bit much caffeine today

[a_spoonerism]

It's my last week of work, so of course, it's going slower than wind erosion. (I need a new metaphor for 'slow' that isn't a nerdy video game reference, (so sit down Sho Minamimoto fans.) Wow, I just wrote a parenthetical statement inside a parenthetical statement. Is that even allowed? Heh. Nested statements. Heh.) I just presented my project for

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[twistnshout013]

I like the irony mark. Though at the same time... I feel like if you can't recognize the irony on your own (generally) whatever you're reading may just be over your head at this time. Wouldn't want to irony mark to allow us to dumb down our literature - though I certainly think I would feel more comfortable during discussions.

[thunderbird127]

I approve of it, I've often thought about how nice it would be to be able to say incredibly mean things to people I don't know, and have them understand I am simply poking fun... not insulting the memory of dead relatives and such.

[derain]

I understand the concept and basic principal of the irony mark, (it being hard to convey irony and sarcasm in a written medium) but in the end I find it to be inelegant. The point of irony is that it's suppose to be subtle, and I don't like the idea of having to hang a sign on each of my ironic comments. I have enough trouble following the dictates of grammar as it is.

[watery_memories]

I have to say I agree. The irony mark could be useful in, say, IM or email, but for higher writing, you should be able to write well enough (or the intended reader should be observant enough) to pick up on the irony without making it obvious. But in that case, IM and emails are designed to be rapid forms of communication, so a special character such as that mark would be more of a hindrance, so its use would still not be widespread.

[watery_memories]

Also: when you have parentheses within parentheses [for example, if you have something else parenthetical to say (like this)], you use brackets on the outside. Although, I was warned by a professor that parentheses (and especially dashes) make you look unorganized (this was in reference to the GRE, but also in general), and that semi-colons are preferred. While I love a good semi-colon, I won't give up my parentheses and dashes, so the ETS (Educational Testing Service) can suck it.

[dan_thelichlord]

An irony mark sort of defeats the subtle and backwards characteristic of irony, I posit that it makes it less witty and nigh nullifies its purpose. As for parenthesis, I think that in common use (provided there aren't any English majors in the room) you're ok so long as you close each parenthetical statement you begin and there isn't an unnecessary number of nested statements.

And as for your beginning paragraph, that's of course always a danger. For about a week near the end of this summer, World of Warcraft made up most of my social interactions. My language skills decayed at an alarming rate until I decided to take a break.

Oh, and I pity the fool who doesn't have administrator-level access to their system.

[dan_thelichlord]

Oh right, and have fun with the documenting. Sounds like fun!

(Though I should speak, I'll be doing that sort of shit as a network admin someday. It won't be nearly as bad as bad as you have it though, what with needing to justify each and every bit of code.)

[a_spoonerism]

Thanks for being the only one who comments on the actual post and not the random thing I link to at the end. Haha. Not that I blame them. I'm sometimes depressed when I think that the me of Anchor might find the me of the present exceedingly boring.

It's common not to have administrator access on a campus computer. I know I don't have administrator access on my CSIL account at school. He has administrator access on his own computer, but as I said, he was SSHing.

[apcotton]

I'm sometimes depressed when I think that the me of Anchor might find the me of the present exceedingly boring.

It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one who thinks this.

[i_got_one]

I much prefer the doubt point, authority point, and indignation point mentioned in the same article.