A: Sarcasm is another thing that doesn’t go over well on social media.
B: Good heavens, no. It’s too easy to misconstrue. I remember once, I had just started a new job. A group of people I was getting to like asked me to join them for dinner. I turned them down.
A: Well, sometimes that happens. It can’t be helped.
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B: The truth was that I already had plans, but I told them that I didn’t want to go because I didn’t like them. It was meant to be sarcastic, but I said it with a straight face. It didn’t go over well, as I’m sure you can imagine.
A: 諷刺的話是另一個可能在社群媒體上把事情搞砸的東西。
B: 天哪,真的不要用,這太容易造成誤會了。我記得有一次,我剛開始一個新工作,有一群我覺得可以處得不錯的人問我要不要跟他們一起去吃晚餐,我拒絕了。
A: 可是有時候就是沒辦法,不得不推掉啊!
B: 我其實是因為已經有別的計畫了,可是我說,因為我不喜歡他們,所以不去。我其實是在說反話,但是臉上沒什麼表情,可想而知,結果我的幽默沒有人買單。
(Paul Cooper, Taipei Times/台北時報林俐凱譯)
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