Posts by Islander
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Lilith __,
I saw some of the last NZ quail waaay back in the early 1950s...v. different-looking birds-
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Nora Leggs,
Awww...puir wee pink balloon, puir wee bird...
-berloody beaut photos tho'!
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Leigh Russell,
Cheers Leigh - I cannot post on that site -I would (I learned to play the clarinet there) but I sure as shit am not joining up to any Google account. Heoi-
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
<q>nd the nadines are chitting on the windowsill</q
Heh!
I defy a non-English speaker - a non gardening English speaker!- to interpret that!(Actually, they'd have to know New Zild...)
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Leigh Russell,
Leigh, the site you linked to does not allow non-google account posts.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to JacksonP,
One of my prized possessions from Wellington in the late eighties is Glenn Busch’s National Art Gallery book Working Men, linked above.
Oneofminetoo-
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Islander,
What may be an ironic saying (or sketch) in one culture is one matter.
(Very probably will not be understood in another.)
What may be - satiric -for some-( for me- I dont understand )(I just think they are misunderstanding matters/mis-saying words/whatever-)is what it matters to those who understand it- enjoy!
What is SARCASM always has it's base in viciousness - whether understood, misunderstood, or deliberately misunderstood.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Cool! But followed up by Sacha's 'Heehaw" (=donkey) is a comment that
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anyway, fuck it all- the comment may have been ironic. May have been satiric. It just lessened Sacha's mana in my mind by about 500%- -
Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Islander,
Not yet. And, probably not in the elder generations lifetimes
And, do we even want to?
There are senses of humour that do not travel – they’re not universal, they are not welcomed everywhere – why should they be supported except by those who understand and welcome them?
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Russell Brown,
That’s interesting. Does it make things a bit difficult on parts of the internet that are quite culturally rooted in irony?
You bet!
I just cant understand it…probably because no wonderful person talked/wrote/asked me to read absolute bollocks and explain there was a penumbra of – something else- but alsomaybe – because NONE of my family does satire/irony…we know sarcasm but that is recognised as a weapon and we respond accordingly.***O,in my first post that was supposed to be irony & satire
I wonder…because my whanau plays with words but gives them due weight & respect? And takes mis-spoken words (anciently) as cause for war…
I mean, we can wordplay- punning/bawdry/familystuff to an extreme degree – but ironic? Satiric?
Not yet. And, probably not in the elder generations lifetimes-