commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:44 pm
How is sarcasm recognized in common speech?
When spoken, it is expressed with a falsetto tone. NOT. If written, the font must differ in color or boldness. NOT.
Sarcasm is recognized by its context. However, there are some individuals who fail to interpret sarcasm correctly, especially in those instances when the text or context is subtle.
Why can’t everybody understand sarcasm every time? Is there a difference in the individuals or in the sarcasm per se?
BTW, you must be an idiot.
Dear Commonsense:
Example:
This should clarify your problem.
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1156/
Straight commentary:
- The above example is a sarcastic comment, because the statement purposely intends a probable untruth, namely clarification from the link.
- Sarcasm is actually a mild form of Doublespeak.
- In Doublespeak, one must really believe without internal conflict that both premises of the contradiction are true.
- Sadly enough, it happens a lot.
- Appropriateness is important for benign sarcasm. With strangers, too enthusiastic a compliment can be perceived as sarcastic when that wasn’t intended, because over-enthusiasm can also be intended sarcasm. Overly sincere is a more subtle form of too enthusiastic and best used if wanting to avoid a perception of sarcasm. When in doubt, shut up.
- Sarcasm is actually a form of defense, or aggression. This doesn’t make it wrong, in fact it’s rather right when for one reason or another a situation is perceived to require a sideways humor.
- In the example above, the word “problem” is a little extra gratuity often added in the same vein as sarcasm, for it is purposely not true and is getting personal.
- If habitual, too much sarcasm becomes a maze with no exit, makes one a sarcastic person, but in the big picture it should not really be judged as good, bad, or worthy of censure, although in many situations other than exploring the unknown it can muddy clarity if the receiver lacks fine tuning.
- Way too much habitual sarcasm makes one bitter and the bitterness makes one sarcastic. If one embraces bitterness one encounters mean and nasty on the way to whatever is on the other side bitterness.
- Bottom line: Awareness of whatever judgments appear to consciousness: sarcasm, enthusiasm, bitterness, habits, no exit to change, or any delusion, will liberate energy that drives those habitual energy/emotion associations. That energy then feeds equanimity rather than
maya’s playfulness, clearing the way for appropriate perspective.
- Whatever judgments do appear, whether from without or within, must be tested for validity. Why? Because of fools and propaganda.
- The real down-to-earth nasty that messes folks up is, resentment.
- When resentment gets too toxic, to survive folks have even been known to endure regular purges in a hot southern church in summertime, without AC, whether the resentment was caused by minor or major offenses to self-preciousness.
- So, just shootin' the breeze the way philosopher's do, or cozy chatters. Nothing to get bent about if that's the inclination.
Simple song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsKt9klQm0Y
If they said something stupid in person, I would probably just let it "hang in the air"... so they could (if possible) hear it echoing for themselves.