ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIs there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?message-squaremessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down13
arrow-up193arrow-down1message-squareIs there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square76fedilink
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoThere is a constructed language that I suspect is free from sarcasm. (At least if it’s used formally) Lojban, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
minus-squareZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoWow this is interesting, I never heard of this. I’m going to have to spend some time learning about it.
minus-squareᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoIt’d be really hard to do sarcasm in Toki Pona too as there are so few words that it just wouldn’t register unless there was a very clear subtextual understanding of intent between the people conversing.
minus-squarenylo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoPona mention! pona o tawa sina :)
There is a constructed language that I suspect is free from sarcasm. (At least if it’s used formally)
Lojban, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Wow this is interesting, I never heard of this. I’m going to have to spend some time learning about it.
It’d be really hard to do sarcasm in Toki Pona too as there are so few words that it just wouldn’t register unless there was a very clear subtextual understanding of intent between the people conversing.
Pona mention!
pona o tawa sina :)