When I wrote this
The written word contains no inflection, so without outside markers, one about know if someone is being serious or sarcastic.
It should have said this
The written word contains no inflection, so without outside markers, one CANNOT know if someone is being serious or sarcastic.
It was an auto-correct typo I didn’t catch.
Maybe that threw you off as to what I was saying?
I don’t see where I changed my own understanding of his statement
What I changed is that originally I viewed it as superfluous, then I realized it’s false