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Originally Posted by xoCourtney  so how is there misreading the way she has talked to me? I don't see a difference. Yes my statement was sarcastic but my smiley was not. I could see how one would think that but if you knew me in real life (which none of you do) I use smilies when people are mad at me or when I made a rude comment to lighten the tension...not to be sarcastic. |
If you use a smiley following a rude comment, as you described above - that *is* sarcastic. It's like in person, if someone says something really nasty to you, and then flashes you this totally ingenuous toothy grin - that grin is actually seething with sarcasm.