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  2. Sarcasm - Wikipedia

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    Sarcasm involves the expression of an insulting remark that requires the interpreter to understand the negative emotional connotation of the expresser within the context of the situation at hand. Irony, contrarily, does not include derision, unless it is sarcastic irony.

  3. Witzelsucht - Wikipedia

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    It makes one unable to read sarcasm. A less common symptom is hypersexuality , the tendency to make sexual comments at inappropriate times or situations. Patients do not understand that their behavior is abnormal; therefore they are nonresponsive to others' reactions.

  4. Poe's law - Wikipedia

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    In part, Poe was simply reiterating common advice about the need to clearly mark online sarcasm or parody, otherwise it would be interpreted as the real thing [5] or used by online trolls, [6] extremists, and fundamentalists as sincere expressions of their authors, particularly if they match their own views. [7]

  5. 40 Indicators That The Person You’re Talking To Is Super ...

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    The device you're reading this on was developed by some extremely smart people and made easy to understand for those folks like me. Ha!" ... One I don't think has been mentioned is sarcasm ...

  6. British humour - Wikipedia

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    Harsh sarcasm and bullying, though with the bully usually coming off worse than the victim – typified by: On the Buses, Arthur toward his wife, Olive, and Jack and Stan towards their boss Blakey; Blackadder, Edmund Blackadder toward his sidekick, Baldrick; The Young Ones, comedy TV series; Fawlty Towers, Basil Fawlty toward his waiter, Manuel

  7. Trump says he wants the US to treat him like North Korea ...

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    You don't understand sarcasm," he said. Trump's comment on Fox followed other musings during the Singapore trip while watching a bit of North Korean television.

  8. 'Friends' and Matthew Perry helped people learn English and ...

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    Friends is more than a catchy theme song and coffee shop banter. For many English-language learners around the world, the seminal sitcom is an unconventional classroom, offering glimpses into ...

  9. Joke - Wikipedia

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    Telling a joke is a cooperative effort; [16] [17] it requires that the teller and the audience mutually agree in one form or another to understand the narrative which follows as a joke. In a study of conversation analysis , the sociologist Harvey Sacks describes in detail the sequential organisation in the telling of a single joke.