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azpuchaz), and she asked me if a comment I made was sarcastic. I said no, it was straight. I'm often surprised at how many meanings the word straight seems to have: literally straight, like a straight line, not-gay, not-sarcastic, in general anything that is sort of main-line (for lack of a better term). Would that suggest that things that are contrasted with the term straight are considered crooked/curved/bent? I rather wonder why straightness is viewed as normative. I guess because it is most simple, and as my difficulty with sarcasm would demonstrate, the other things come across as harder to understand.
But as far as the converastion went, we were talking about how maybe my tendency to say things taht are so straight and honest that they sound like they could almost be sarcastic is why I have a hard time recognizing and using sarcasm. SO maybe Captain Obvious also would have a hard time with sarcasm (that is, if Captain Obvious is someone besides me, which my beloved sibling would contest).
azpuchaz), and she asked me if a comment I made was sarcastic. I said no, it was straight. I'm often surprised at how many meanings the word straight seems to have: literally straight, like a straight line, not-gay, not-sarcastic, in general anything that is sort of main-line (for lack of a better term). Would that suggest that things that are contrasted with the term straight are considered crooked/curved/bent? I rather wonder why straightness is viewed as normative. I guess because it is most simple, and as my difficulty with sarcasm would demonstrate, the other things come across as harder to understand. But as far as the converastion went, we were talking about how maybe my tendency to say things taht are so straight and honest that they sound like they could almost be sarcastic is why I have a hard time recognizing and using sarcasm. SO maybe Captain Obvious also would have a hard time with sarcasm (that is, if Captain Obvious is someone besides me, which my beloved sibling would contest).