Sarcasm. . .Whatever

"Cool" old people know a whooooole lot about me and my generation. Apparently. . .

The "so-called" greatest generation are like "whoa dude you kids talk all sarcastically and stuff. My generation shot Hitler's eyes out and saved the earth from total destruction or something. We are the greatest generation pretty much ever." Yeah greatest generation of worst parents. If they are so great why are all their kids hippies? Awesome job greatest generation!

OK I can't stereotype my generation anymore; it's giving me a headache. But I still mean the gist of that stuff I said. We are sarcastic but so what? That's our thing. They had their rock and roll and world wars. We have sarcasm and reality TV.

Sarcasm is here to stay. Until the next generation is born and starts making cheerful politeness and optimism popular again. Blagh, can't wait for that! The biggest challenge my generation has communicating is how to communicate sarcasm through texts and IMs. Sure we can just auto-assume that sarcasm is ever present but you know what happens when we assume? Something about a donkey. . . .Anyway, here are the ten best ways to get that sarcasm out front and center. Subtlety is the best! Examples are demonstrated above.

1) Ahhh! Scare quotes. From the Chicago Manual of "Style": "Quotation marks are often used to alert readers that a term is used in a nonstandard, ironic, or other special sense."

2) Use a less than flattering way of saying something. If you know a euphemism for something, use the something that the euphemism is for. E.g., crazies instead of mentally disturbed.

3) Add extra letters to represent saying the word really long. Go ahead, lay it on real thick. A grammatical exxxxxxpert from WikiAnswers: "There Just Trying to be Dramatic lol-"

4) Use ellipses after the sarcastic word or phrase. This is nonstandard outside the rising new grammar of texting. OK. . .

5) Adding words after the fact to create a sense of distrust. E.g., apparently, or something, sure, and whatever. Right. Whatever.

6) Adding "so-called" or "supposed" before something to deride it disrespectfully. The "so-called" Chicago Manual of Style: "The expression ["so-called"] itself indicates irony or doubt."

7) Phrase something so it is obviously incorrect. Show you don't care by purposefully disregarding its importance. Old people love this!

8) Hyperbole can be a very negative tool. It's so super amazing! But be careful because it can also be taken to mean really positive hyperbole. Consider your hyper intelligent super brainy audience.

9) Take a positive phrase and amend it to add a negative ending. If Triumph the Insult Comic dog read this he would say: "This is a good blog. For me to poop on!"

10) If by the context something couldn't possibly be positive, it isn't. From the mouth of Rachel J Reddoch regarding any terrible crises: "That's good." Yeah do that.

So I guess apparently that's an awesome way to supposedly be "sarcasssstic." If you're dumb. Whatever. . .