Is sarcasm the lowest form of wit and the highest form of ignorance?
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Most people don't mind an occasional sarcastic jest or ironic comment in the course of a conversation. It becomes unbearable if it is heavy-handed, malicious or offensive. Sarcasm is best used with people who you know will not take what you say too seriously. It is risky to use with people you do not know well. Sarcasm is generally wasted on small children, who tend towards literalism, although if they have a parent who is inclined towards sarcasm, they can learn to recognize when mom is just being facetious again. \n\nBy the way, puns are the lowest form of wit. By far.
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stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance
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Everything points to one thing: dripping sarcasm
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In your case there would seem to be a correlation because realising how little you really know is one sign of wisdom. However there are people who were young fools and now they are old fools so you can't always draw a correlation between age and wisdom.
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Me.  I'm a walking comedy routine, but most people take the sarcasm WAY too seriously.  Check out some of my other answers.  Lighten up, folks.
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Are you willing to say that ignorance IS bliss?
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Is that a joke or a public pronouncement of glaring ignorance? Yeah, I thought so.
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I think some groups of people are more likely to get sarcasm. Since it does require a better grasp of subtleties, it requires higher logical and verbal reasoning. These are thing that come with your standard education package, but don´t expect it with your McMeal.\n \nPeople who most strongly oppose immigration are probably the ones losing jobs to immigrants. Chances are, they had McMeal for their education.\n \nTry this experiment: find two evolution x design questions, one that looks like it was asked by a pro-evolution (usually in the biology section) and one that looks like it was asked by a pro-design (in religion). Answer both sarcastically so that you actually defend evolution to the religious and design to the evolutionist. Lets see which of them picks it up.\n \nSend me a mail so I can follow that. Yes, I realize I could do it myself, but I´m an ESL so I have little grasp of the language.
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Being sarcastic has its uses.  There are times and places that it is necessary.  But you need to recognize when and where that is.  Personally...I love sarcasm..its the best.
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LOL!\n\nwhy are there even people on this world who don't understand this point ur making.\n\ni mean, sometimes sarcasm is deeply hidden, but if they even don't see your point in this, then maybe God should start flooding the earth again :)
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Yes and no. It isn't always strictly sarcastic, but can also be mocking, belittling, or just used for emphasis... it depends on the context.\n\nIf I write...\n\nChristians believe in a "historical figure" known by them as Jesus...\n\nor\n\nMany scientists believe in the "theory" of Evolution...\n\nYou can see that this is obviously intended to be snarky. \n\nMany times the writers think they are being clever and subtle but their own opinions and animosity leak out very clearly. \n\nI personally can't stand the practice.
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If you're still on the site, and will even read responses to your "question", know that you're going to find ignorance and inane commentary on every site, blog, or message board you visit. Human nature online is not much different that what you experience in daily life.\n\nIt's ok to be contemptous of ignorance; it almost impossible to run away from it.
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Wit is clever, humour is funny. Wit can sometimes be scathing, and hurtful -- at other times, it can be a flick of light illuminating an especially silly condition. Many comedic remarks about politicians are witty. Humour is downright funny, and can generate guffaws and belly laughs. It is more broadly understood, too. Wit is often something that requires an 'in' component to completely understand.
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First, I can't recognize the sentence in the title question... it doesn't make sense in any language I know of...  from what I can tell, it's complete gibberish... Did your cat happen to run across your keyboard?\n\nSecondly, I think the ability to understand irony and sarcasm is a function of intelligence.  Also, there is a difference between understanding irony and sarcasm and appreciating irony and sarcasm.  Appreciating it is a function of a person's sense of humor, which I think is at least a little culturally based.  As an American, I can assure you that many of us do appreciate irony and sarcasm; and as an American who has lived in Texas, California, and New York, I can tell you that I have been much freer to express my sarcastic self since I moved to New York.\n\nThe problem is that so many people misuse sarcasm and irony because they really don't know what they are.  Well timed and well crafted irony is, in my opinion, the most beautiful thing in any language.  So you should feel free to use irony and sarcasm as long as they're a part of an intelligent joke or observation, given that you execute them properly (so... not just as a snide comment, which I've found is how most people are sarcastic, and that's just no fun at all).\n\nAs far as these things being part of a language issue, I speak Spanish, and I've been able to be successfully sarcastic and ironic in Spanish.  I haven't tried in any other language that I speak because I'm most fluent in Spanish (after English), and I'm not as advanced in the others.  And since I already sound like a small, slightly retarded child when I speak the others (and sometimes in Spanish and English as well), I'd rather not fail horribly in making a joke on top of it all.  At least with sarcasm, a lot of it has to do with the tone of voice.  So, the speaker has to feel comfortable enough speaking the language to be able to manipulate their tone appropriately, and that definitely requires a certain amount of expertise.\n\nOh, and also (last thing, I promise), it's much harder to be successfully ironic and sarcastic online, or in writing generally.  When you can't impose a tone on your words in writing, it's much easier for people to miss the humor.  I think that's why Oscar Wilde is so popular; it's really difficult to write in an ironic or sarcastic tone, and yet his tone is always unmistakeable.  Unless you're dumb.
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Wit (n.), witty (adj.)\nA witty reply (or riposte)
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Sarcasm is usually used as a defense method. People fear sarcastic attacks and will definitely back away rather than confront.  They know if someone is highly sarcastic, that same person will not mind saying something that might be humiliating or embarrassing as well.  \n\nSarcasm prevents another from criticism and confronting.  It's just a tool.\n\nI was once a sarcastic person who was unaware why.  I simply thought it was cleverness.  \n\nWhen someone used sarcasm on me, it hurt enough that I looked at myself and discovered why I was doing it and stopped - just like that.  It's been years and I've never reverted to sarcasm since then.
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Sarcasm can be found in many cultures and it can be traced back to literature from Shakespearean days.  \n\nAs we have studied in some psychology and counseling classes, \n1. people do use sarcasm as coping mechanism, \n2. but people also use sarcasm in provocative senses, in order to stir up emotions from the audience;\n3. sometimes sarcasm is used as an unspoken way of understanding between two parties\n4. sarcasm is often used among the "intellects" to state the obvious.\n\nVery interesting discussion.  Thanks for bringing this up.