If you want to write satire, you've got to get your context in the first paragraph, not the sixth. Nobody is going to wade through six paragraphs of scene-setting trying to figure out what the joke is.
But... there's no word play, there. You're just using the actual meaning. I was confused by the title, because I started the essay expecting satire, and then I had to context switch when I realized there was none.
Yeah, that was my only complaint. Satire is so much better when halfway through you go, "Oh, I get it!". This is just simple, if fun, sarcastic ranting.
And I am extremely surprised there's a person out there that didn't get it.
Perhaps people only read the title? I too found this really disjointed. The author says the whole thing is "extreme satire" in the header, but it doesn't read that way, so I found myself increasingly confused as I attempted to read.
This concept doesn't pass much intellectual muster and does a disservice to your readers / users. Do you really believe that thoughtful satire cannot produce intelligent conversation?
You disagree that it's a humor piece and not a guide? Yes, revising is incidentally a good thing for writers to do, but this is quite obviously satire if you read beyond the first sentence of each rule.
If you want to write satire, you've got to get your context in the first paragraph, not the sixth. Nobody is going to wade through six paragraphs of scene-setting trying to figure out what the joke is.
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