Don't try to be subtle or even sarcastic or joking via text, because you risk being misunderstood or worse -- offending.
FOOTNOTE: I was reading the other day that, no matter how obviously you are being sarcastic, if it's text there's going to be some people who will think you're being serious.
For those who want to make sure their sarcasm is recognized for what it is, Sarcasm Inc., a Michigan company, has developed the "SarcMark" to identify sarcastic comments in e-mail and text messages.
It is often hard to gauge tone, facial expression and body language over text so don't say something sarcastic or ironic that may upset her, even if you intended it to be a joke.
"Mother just told us that we will stop playing in one hour," an aide texted an associate, playing on a sarcastic Egyptian expression for the country's Western patron, "Mother America".
After that we had a lot of text banter: he can be quite rude and sarcastic, which I like.
Many of these viewers tap out their own commentary – sarcastic or jubilant remarks and emoji – via an ever-flowing waterfall of text beneath the video stream.
It eventually found expression in a particularly vehement form in the writing of Martin Luther which Marx cites at the same point in the text of Capital as that at which he intones his sarcastic paean to accumulation, mentioned above.
She thought that despite being aimed at a wide audience, the text was not "light reading", and expressed dislike at Chomsky's "sarcastic tone".
Using text speak should be forbidden in roleplay unless it's a sarcastic roleplay.
