It's because inflection doesn't deliver through text. Which sucks, actually.
That's lead to many unfortunate unnecessary arguments with me with people online in the past. For example: In one instance in particular, what was a casual conversation for me over coffee in the morning with someone, was taken by that person to be me trying to be imposing.
In another instance, a casual after dinner conversation with someone for me was taken by another different person entirely than the first to be me being verbally argumentative.
In both situations I had to explain to them the misunderstanding and state: "No, believe me, you'd know if I was pissed off. I'd just totally stop talking to you all together and drop you like a hot potato."
Those people were no one on here. I was just giving examples as to how inflection and tone of voice can be misconstrued online through text.
Witty, sarcastic dry, dark humor is kind of a personality staple with me. So is over-analysis of everything non-social.
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