Trying to find the best word to describe this response.

banja

banja

banja

Soldato
Joined
4 Aug 2006
Posts
2,582
I say: "Hi, are you going to be in on Monday when we come round?"

They say: "Well, I do live here."

The intention being - who knows what they do with their life? It's a rhetorical, repsectful question. The response is barbed.

Okay, now that response isn't 'sarcasm'. Would you call it facetious? Sardonic? What is the word for that specific kind of cynical response / humour?
 
Well done for missing the point so far. It's a subtle form of cynicism, but I'm unsure how it would be described as a form of language / humour.
 
banja said:
I say: "Hi, are you going to be in on Monday when we come round?"

They say: "Well, I do live here."

The intention being - who knows what they do with their life? It's a rhetorical, repsectful question. The response is barbed.

Okay, now that response isn't 'sarcasm'. Would you call it facetious? Sardonic? What is the word for that specific kind of cynical response / humour?
Click to expand...

It's not rhetorical.
 
It's far from witty. It's a valid question to which they've responded in a sarcastic, unhelpful (knowingly awkward) manner. The type of response to that would be "oh my bad, I forgot that you never leave the house, EVER"
 
They still didn't answer your question, you asked whether they would be in, not where they lived. So incorrect would be my vote :p.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom