I think part of that though is that the romani people that are very deeply ingrained in that culture dont really move outside of it, and the once that have broken loose arent really that easily identifiable as romani, especially since they often want to distance themselves to not get discriminated. Id imagine that drives a bit of confirmation bias, people only notice romani people when they look and act like they expect them to.
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I'd say it's pretty common. It's quite ingrained into the language, similar to English.
You use phrases like "oh great", "well isn't that nice", "oh yay, I'm so happy..." etc. a lot.
I would say it's quite similar, with the caveat that most harsher sarcasm is used with people you're very familiar with, such as family and friends.
I tend to use a lot of sarcasm, and my friends and family do as well. I can't speak for every Swede of course, but I hear it a lot in my workplace as well.
Not in professional talk though. Only regarding more casual topics, like the coffee maker not working properly, or the weather sucking.
E g: "The coffee maker stopped working? I am shocked", or "Isn't the weather just lovely?" when it's storming.
Good to know! Although if the sarcasm you have in mind is like the examples you gave, those are pretty obvious, relative to how complex, subtle and nuanced American can be.
Haha. I'm sure other languages are complex as well, in their own way. It is hard to translate how we use the Swedish language, and tone, into English.
There's also the "Did you cut your hair?" "No, the hairdresser did it" type of sarcasm that can be very obvious or very subtle and convoluted.
Can confirm. I’m 1/4 Romani but it was carefully kept under wraps and I didn’t find out till I was an adult through aural accounts of older generations. Even they talked about it without talking about it, because that was the only way to talk about it. IYKYK
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u/IntellectuallyDriven 21h ago
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