A Conversation for Writing Right with Dmitri: Learning the Art of Good Snark

I would rather make wry or droll remarks, or aim for deadpan humor

Post 1

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Snark-hunting was something Lewis Carroll offered instruction in.

"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."

Ah, yes, the practice of saying the same thing so many times that people give up on trying to correct you. smiley - erm

Not that you have been guilty of this, Dmitri, except as an example of irony or hyperbole (observe the number of references to cats in the Post smiley - groan.

But. I don't have a full set of tools for negotiating the paths that lead through the Post and much of H2G2. I will stay with what has worked for me before. If people laugh at my efforts, I will hasten to say that I *intended* to be funny.

smiley - laugh


I would rather make wry or droll remarks, or aim for deadpan humor

Post 2

Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.

I always get a bit uneasy with the word droll, because where I live, a "drol" is a unit of excrement.


I would rather make wry or droll remarks, or aim for deadpan humor

Post 3

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

I think it is in English, too, a lot of the time, CRE. smiley - laugh

Carroll's 'Hunting of the Snark' will be featured in the Post later this month. We have some volunteer interpreters. smiley - winkeye


I would rather make wry or droll remarks, or aim for deadpan humor

Post 4

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

smiley - wow

I look forward to that. smiley - bigeyes

Is "aftward" a word?


I would rather make wry or droll remarks, or aim for deadpan humor

Post 5

Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.

Could be rearward.


I would rather make wry or droll remarks, or aim for deadpan humor

Post 6

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Both are legitimate words. smiley - ok


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