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	Sarcasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarcasm is sneering, jesting, or mocking a person, situation or thing.
		Sarcasm is proverbially described as "the lowest form of humour but the highest form of wit" (a quotation sometimes ascribed to Oscar Wilde, but untraceable).
		Sarcasm is also achievable through written language by using capitalization to emphasize certain words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarcasm (351 words)

	Sarcasm - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sarcasm is great because it allows you to be critical of something without actually exposing your opinion on the subject.
		The birth of sarcasm evolved in Britain during Victorian times as a result of everyone being so bloody polite to each other that it was almost impossible to have a heated debate (not to be confused with the Greek mass-debate).
		Sarcasm is a very delicate and precise art form, which must be worked at for many long years before one can finally master its subtle intricacies.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Sarcasm (774 words)

	Sarcasm - Wikiquote
		Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
		Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
		Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Sarcasm (152 words)

	The Anti-Social Primer - Sarcasm
		Sarcasm is the primary weapon in the arsenal of the Anti-Social.
		Sarcasm is the first thing a true Anti-Social needs to develop in order to progress to more advanced tutorials.
		Sarcasm is defined as "A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest." Now that we know what sarcasm is, we know we must hone the edge of our sarcastic wit to a fine edge in order to make it cut smoothly.
	www.packingheat.com /tutorials/sarcasm.html (818 words)

	www.myspace.com/sarcasm
		SARCASM has strong hooks, which are matched by an intensity all of their own.
		RIP sarcasm, you guys were an awesome band, and i'm proud to say i saw you guys twice whilst justin was still in the band......
		im going to miss sarcasm, thank you so much for all the amazing songs and albums, you guya were amazing from the beggining and i am really going to miss you, even though you arent completely gone, i still have your new band, as soon as i find out how to add them.
	myspace.com /sarcasm (1395 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Magazine \| The rules of sarcasm
		And if sarcasm is particularly apt for putting the fools in their places, it can equally be self-deprecating, or just a complaint about the outrageous trials of life that beset good people like us.
		I believe a little research will confirm that sarcasm is cutting and insulting and not always witty and intends words to be taken for what they mean, while it is IRONY that twists an expression into its opposite.
		The people who regard sarcasm as the lowest form of wit are the dullards who (a) think up a witty riposte some eight hours after it would be useful and (b) are most often its victims.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4384734.stm (1634 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The History of Sarcasm - A642917
		Horace, to name but one of the great authors, wrote innumerable satires and epistles which were as filled with sarcasm as a football match is with surpressed violence.
		Probably the purest form of sarcasm that ever existed was confined to Chinese monastry for much of the 18th and early 19th century, before becoming more widely known around China in the late 19th.
		Little is known of the sarcasm of South America, but from what clues we can piece together, it seems that the Incas and one of the indigenous peoples of Peru developed astonishingly complex forms of sarcasm that baffle explanation today.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A642917 (733 words)

	sarcasm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A major ingredient in Sarcasm’s music is the 3-part harmonies of Brad, Keri, and Mike that rain down over the power rock, a melodious approach often not found in hard rock of this type.
		Sarcasm is currently on tour, but it'll have a big homecoming August 7 when it plays the Ernie Ball Stage of the Vans Warped Tour at Randall's Island.
		Sarcasm has a five song EP that was recorded in 1999 entitled "...you should try it sometime" and another demo that was recorded in 2000.
	www.sarcasm-music.com /press.php (3766 words)

	Sarcasm Encyclopedia Article @ CompleteIdiotsGuide.com (Complete Idiots Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		TPURAM: Sarcasm and fl humour were the inherent features of Ayyappa Panikers poetry.
		Most commonly, sarcasm involves stating the opposite of the intended meaning, e.g.
		A person's disposition to sarcasm is sometimes viewed as a symptom of concealed anger.
	completeidiotsguide.com /encyclopedia/Sarcasm (429 words)

	Sarcasm
		"Sarcasm" is the type of evidentiality that conveys that the speaker believes the proposition uttered is false ("the metamessage "I don't mean this").
		Sarcasm is often associated with a mismatch between intonation and message:
		Quite frequently, sarcasm isn't explicitly marked at all; the only clue that an utterance is sarcastic comes from the fact that the literal meaning is absurd.
	www.linguistics.ucsb.edu /faculty/cumming/ling50/sarcasm.htm (677 words)

	The Anatomy Of Sarcasm
		Participants with prefrontal damage were impaired in comprehending sarcasm, whereas the people in the other two groups had no such problem.
		The prefrontal cortex is involved in pragmatic language processes and complex social cognition, thus it followed that that participants with prefrontal damage had faulty "sarcasm sensors".
		The psychologists behind the research explain that for sarcasm to work, listeners must grasp the speaker's intentions in the context of the situation, which calls for sophisticated social thinking and whether we understand that everyone thinks different thoughts.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/20050423051617data_trunc_sys.shtml (955 words)

	APA Press Release: The Anatomy of Sarcasm
		WASHINGTON — The ability to comprehend sarcasm depends upon a carefully orchestrated sequence of complex cognitive skills based in specific parts of the brain.
		The Israeli psychologists who conducted the research explain that for sarcasm to score, listeners must grasp the speaker’s intentions in the context of the situation.
		The findings highlight the importance of lesion size in sub-regions of the frontal lobe because the extent of the right ventromedial lesion was significantly related to performance in the sarcasm task: The worse the damage, the greater the impairment.
	www.apa.org /releases/sarcasm.html (762 words)

	sarcasm - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sarcasm: My next work shall be on rice paper wound about a…
		My next work shall be on rice paper wound about a spool, with a perforated line every six inches and on sale in Boots.
		Sarcasm: I don't mind if you don't like my manners.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=sarcasm (122 words)

	Language Log: Locating the sarcasm bump?
		The authors explored the neurobiology of sarcasm and the cognitive processes underlying it by examining the performance of participants with focal lesions on tasks that required understanding of sarcasm and social cognition.
		However, it exemplifies the tendency of scientists to assume without discussion that the common-sense categories of conscious experience must be in one-to-one correspondence with brain regions and with components in a functional "boxology".
		I learned about this from Justin Busch at Semantic Compositions, who has posted an interesting discussion of some other aspects of the paper, especially the authors' claim that the sarcastic passages in their experiments were read with "sarcastic intonation".
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002203.html (596 words)

	The Why Files \| Sarcastically speaking
		Even though Oscar Wilde called sarcasm the lowest form of wit, interpreting sarcasm requires some sophisticated abilities: You must interpret the literal meaning of the words, understand the speaker's attitude and emotions, and judge whether the literal meaning -- or the opposite -- is the real message.
		While previous researchers had located the interpretation of irony and sarcasm on the right side of the brain, and in the prefrontal cortex, this was the first experiment to locate sarcasm in the right side of the prefrontal cortex, Shamay-Tsoory and colleagues wrote.
		To understand sarcasm, Shamay-Tsoory says, you must interpret the literal meaning of the words, grasp the emotional context of the situation, and then develop a "theory of mind" to help you understand how the speaker sees things.
	whyfiles.org /shorties/178sarcasm (571 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| 'Sarcasm' brain areas discovered
		By comparing healthy people and those with damage to different parts of the brain, they found the front of the brain was key to understanding sarcasm.
		An example of sarcasm was "Joe came to work, and instead of beginning to work, he sat down to rest.
		She said language areas on the left hand side of the brain interpret the literal meaning of words and the frontal lobes and the right side of the brain understand the social and emotional context.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/health/4566319.stm (485 words)

	Sarcasm - Uncyclopedia
		People often misuse 'sarcasm' as a synonym for 'irony', but 'irony' refers to occassions when the literal meaning and the intended meaning of the words uttered are different, while sarcasm refers to the mocking intent of the utterance.
		Nobody knows how Sarcasm came to be however some think it was coined in the Yellowstone National Park USA near Zar Chasm a particulary nasty sheer drop that had claimed many lives in its history.
		Apparently nobody who edits Uncyclopedia (including myself) knows what sarcasm is, except for the ethral being which is Tripp, (pronounced "Master of the Universe") (And no one knows their arse from a kangaroo either, we are sure.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Sarcasm (569 words)

	Decision Science News: Anybody got any sarcasm?
		Participants with prefrontal damage (n 25) showed impaired performance on the sarcasm task, whereas participants with posterior damage (n 16) and healthy controls (n 17) performed the same task without difficulty.
		In addition, although the prefrontal damage was associated with deficits in theory of mind and right hemisphere damage was associated with deficits in identifying emotions, these 2 abilities were related to the ability to understand sarcasm.
		Sarcasm is usually used to communicate implicit criticism about the listener or the situation.
	www.dangoldstein.com /dsn/archives/2005/06/anybody_got_any_1.html (1183 words)

	Sarcasm, Sarcastic Comments, Quotes, Remarks, Dark Sarcasm
		That is definitely an overstatement but it should balance the moronic comment which says that sarcasm is the lowest form of humor.
		Sarcasm usually requires a quick wit, and the ability to extract the minutest points of weakness in a conversation.
		Perhaps not being able to enjoy sarcasm is directly related to not having the ability to come up with sarcastic comments, which in turn creates a feeling of inadequacy, which in turn can spawn a Napoleon complex, that can cause someone to logicise that sarcasm is the humor of the stupid.
	www.sarcasmsociety.com (541 words)

	Newsvine - The [sarcasm] / [/sarcasm] Tag
		Because effective use of sarcasm requires its reader understand that the writer is intending to be sarcastic, however, the most urgently needed semantic tag is one to visually indicate sarcasm (visually, I've envisioned left-leaning italics representing a sarcastic tone).
		Visually, sarcasm could be displayed perhaps as a combination of deprecated tags (e.g., blink combined with underline).
		I think people forget that sarcasm -usually- requires some sort of personal understanding of the commenter laying out the sarcasm in order to be fully appreciated.
	josh-of-arc.newsvine.com /_news/2006/07/25/299923-the-sarcasm-sarcasm-tag (741 words)

	How To Be Sarcastic: A Tutorial - Sarcasm Society
		Before I begin, I would like to point out that I am fully aware that some of the writing on this site is not even close to being sarcastic; but that is ok, because this is my web site, and I can do with it as I please.
		Just because I am trying to teach you something that is usually innate and comes easy to those who are clever and intelligent, or at least quick-witted, does not mean that I presume to think myself your superior, and expect that you genuflect before me.
		As mentioned above sarcasm is usually innate; however, if you would still like to attempt developing this ability, your chances of success would be greatly increased if you are intelligent, or at the least not mentally incapable of detecting and reproducing sarcastic remarks.
	www.sarcasmsociety.com /howtobesarcastic (221 words)

	Sarcasm - Page 4 - Absolute Write Water Cooler
		If you want to use sarcasm, give it to a character who is a master of it.
		It is true that every character has his or her "thing", the way that Chandler is known for his sarcasm.
		Indeed, with the examples ray and scribbler gave it would be hard "not to notice" the sarcasm, as you want some of your characters to do.
	www.absolutewrite.com /forums/showthread.php?p=505748 (1270 words)

	Sarcasm - OApedia - the Opie and Anthony encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It should also be noted that sarcasm is particularly difficult to pick up on an internet message board (such as Wackbag), which causes an occasional rift between fans.
		Ricky, a former intern at the Opie and Anthony show, was seemingly born without a sarcasm detector.
		As a result of this, the boys had him write and present a report on the subject.
	www.oapedia.com /oa/Sarcasm (162 words)

	Men learn sarcasm is an important tool - 01/24/06 - The Detroit News Online
		Some of the experiments he and his colleagues have done suggest both sexes use sarcasm as an indirect form of verbal aggression that gets a message across in ways people will remember.
		Women, however, are champs at sarcasm when it is used to cut other women out of a conversation or a social group, he said.
		Still, by adulthood, sarcasm is an important communication tool for men.
	www.detnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060124/LIFESTYLE/601240324/1005 (362 words)

	PsychNotes
		Language areas on the left side of the brain interpret the literal meaning of words and the frontal lobes and the right side of the brain understand the social and emotional context.
		The right ventromedial prefrontal cortex integrates the literal meaning with the social/emotional context, which will gives meaning to the concept of sarcasm.
		If someone has a problem understanding a social situation, he or she may fail to understand the literal language.
	radio.weblogs.com /0117471/2005/05/28.html (270 words)

	Introducing the long-awaited sarcasm point. By Josh Greenman - Slate Magazine
		Sarcasm purists, Norm McDonald, and his acolytes might be troubled by all this talk.
		Announce it and your friends won't experience the same delight in the spasm of sarcasm you use to praise the president.
		The first sarcasm point won't work its way into the Republican Party platform until 2028, into a Georgia English textbook until 2032, and won't appear in a prayer book until, I'm guessing, 2080.
	www.slate.com /id/2111172 (1028 words)

	Urban Dictionary: sarcasm
		sarcasm sarcastic irony funny satire humor humour lol orgasm idiot ironic joke lame parody response rofl sargasm sympathy wit anger comedy confusion conversation cynicism disdain insult internets moron noob omg snark terrific you acronym aim apathy apology awesome big brolic come back cough dick drama drama queen duh dull face fan-freaking-tastic fan-friggin-tastic fantastic
		The word 'Sarcasm' is derived from a Greek word meaning 'tearing flesh', which is why sarcastic vegetarians are so ironic.
		Also known as a sixth sense as one’s ability to detect the offence and threat of one’s self or another’s during sight or hearing of sarcasm.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=sarcasm&r=f (513 words)

	It's no joke: Study identifies brain circuitry involved in our grasp of sarcasm
		They tested 25 participants with lesions in the prefrontal cortex, 16 with lesions in the posterior cortex and 17 healthy controls with no lesions on their ability to understand sarcastic remarks.
		Perhaps most surprising, the authors note, is the tight relationship among our abilities to understand sarcasm, empathy and other people's thoughts.
		"To detect sarcasm, irony and jokes, and to better understand what people mean when they talk, we must have empathy," Shamay-Tsoory says.
	www.apa.org /monitor/may05/sarcasm.html (429 words)

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