Benefits of Sarcasm
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Benefits of Sarcasm
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#2"Great" article.
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#3I was very surprised.
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#4> Other research has show that sarcasm can be easily misinterpreted, particularly when communicated electronically.
I can't tell if the comments thus far are sarcastic.
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#5Not directly related to the article but just to the topic: one of the biggest things for me to get used to when I moved from the UK to France earlier this year is the lack of sarcasm used/understood by French people. There's a couple of French people I know who get my sense of humour, for everyone else I have to conciously knock off what I think of as the UK part of my joking and keep it to "international-friendly humour" only.
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#6One of the few lessons to stick with me from high school English was during the lesson on irony, when a student asked "Is sarcasm the same thing as irony?" and the teacher thought about it for a moment, before responding that, yes, it is, kind of, but it's the lowest form of irony.
I really enjoy irony in life and in literature, so I try to avoid sarcasm as to not cheapen the fun of "higher" forms of irony (like finally understanding Alanis Morisette's "Ironic").
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#7Way to shake things up with the finding of the century there, guys.
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#8One of the few lessons to stick with me from high school English was during the lesson on irony, when a student asked "Is sarcasm the same thing as irony?" and the teacher thought about it for a moment, before responding that, yes, it is, kind of, but it's the lowest form of irony. I really enjoy irony in life and in literature, so I try to avoid sarcasm as to not cheapen the fun of "higher" forms of irony (like fina…
> like finally understanding Alanis Morisette's "Ironic"
Would you mind explaining the deeper meaning of Morissette's song?
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#9One of the few lessons to stick with me from high school English was during the lesson on irony, when a student asked "Is sarcasm the same thing as irony?" and the teacher thought about it for a moment, before responding that, yes, it is, kind of, but it's the lowest form of irony. I really enjoy irony in life and in literature, so I try to avoid sarcasm as to not cheapen the fun of "higher" forms of irony (like fina…
From what I remember, very little if anything she mentions in that song is actually irony. Mostly just bad luck.
Edit: Wow - never occurred to me that this might have been the point of the song.
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#10Way to shake things up with the finding of the century there, guys.
Probably not a productive comment