Originally Posted by CBreezy

Do you post here? I've seen incredibly outlandish things written here seriously that I could easily read as sarcasm. Sarcasm is verbal. The author of the post was actually being ironic and trying to use a sarcastic tone as a vehicle to identify the irony. Since we can't tell tone in just words, it must be read as truth. There was no other way to tell that he was being ironic. Irony in the written word should carry some other kind of context.

I "never" pretend. I'm just plain "smart."