On Tuesday 20 December 2022 at 13:13:20, Benny Pedersen wrote:
> there is 2 kind of people, one that do understand jokes, and the other
In general I find that it helps greatly if the person telling a joke is clear
that that is what they are doing.
In speech / face-to-face situations this can be achieved by tone of voice
and/or body language, but those being missing from pure text communications
means that most people have adopted the use of :) and similar to indicate that
they would smile whilst saying it if you could see them.
Also, bear in mind that the word "funny" in English does not only mean
"amusing" - it can also indicate some degree of "strange" - as in "hm, it's
very quiet - that's funny".
Hope that helps,
Antony.
PS: There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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