I was about to say that using an attitudinal for sarcasm, irony, and/or joking would sort of ruin the intended effect -- but actually I think there
is an appropriate use case: informal text.
Attitudinals are often compared to emoticons, and emoticons are commonly used to help clarify the writer's intended mood and meaning in Internet chat, forums, and emails. People tend to write in a very loose, conversational style on the internet, so their writing lacks both the precision of more formal writing and the nuance of spoken inflections and tone. So, while announcing that you are telling a silly joke probably makes it less funny in speech, it's maybe safer, when being ironical/sarcastic on the internet, to append the line with a winky face, or a "jk" ("just kidding"). And an attitudinal would serve the same purpose.
~Andrew
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 9:47:52 PM UTC-8, stevo wrote:
If a cmavo indicating sarcasm (e.g., xo'o) is used, is the resulting utterance still sarcasm?
stevo
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:10 PM, guskant
<gusni...@gmail.com> wrote:
Le mercredi 18 novembre 2015 00:01:49 UTC, la .tamar. a écrit :coi
My friend wanted to know if there is an attitudinal for showing sarcasm.
Is there one?
Thanks :)
{xo'o} of selma'o UI is suggested and used by many people, though not yet official:
The parser zantufa of version 0.1 or later, as well as the current ilmentufa of experimental grammar, parses {xo'o} as UI.
In the past, {xo'o} was sometimes proposed for some different meanings, but it seems that only the proposal for the meaning of sarcasm survived.