On the internet nobody can tell what you actually meant.

[andrewducker]

Given the following conversation:

Person A: "OMG THIS EPISODE OF THIS THING I LOVE WAS AWESOME!"
Person B: "Really? I thought it was a bit contrived/boring/silly/not up to usual standards for x/y/z/ reason..."

[Poll #1780923]

Comments

[andrewducker]

New poll time!

(Personally, I parse "Seriously?" and "Really?" identically.)

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, definitely seeing it differently to you on that one. Really is as described above, while "serioiusly?" would be "You're being sarcastic, right? You can't possibly *really* have a totally opposing view to my own... can you?"