@CCC:
My cable was mysteriously cut a few months back. Not like I was paying for it anyway though…
And nobody here has ever understood my sarcasm the few times I've attempted it. They found it baffling enough that I gave up pretty quickly. A matter of subtlety vs. bluntness, maybe? :P
...So you think the bros teasing Rebecca were being sarcastic then? "Undefeated" = "defeated quite a bit"?
Can't quite tell on the undefeated part, but I think the great warrior bit was sarcasm.
They didn't have sincerity in their outlook at all.
As for sarcasm, it doesn't carry over very well even in the same culture unless you make it painfully obvious. And without the body language and tone to go with it, people keep failing to grasp it even in the English forums.
Subtle sarcasm frequently fails to convey in any language, IMO.
EDIT; holy crap I just read the news of Yamaguchi of Zero no Tsukaima passed away… he was young too! ZnT is added to list of another forever-incomplete novel series... sorry, completely OT. Oda, do not fail us. STOP SMOKING TOO.