Comments on: Sarcasm http://mark.ty-wharton.com/2010/02/28/sarcasm/ likebeing.com | life isn't personal Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:08:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Marc JX8P http://mark.ty-wharton.com/2010/02/28/sarcasm/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Marc JX8P Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:46:47 +0000 http://mark.ty-wharton.com/?p=2033#comment-261 Some very good points... I do enjoy a good bit of sarcasm but it's indeed very important to make sure that the others in the conversation understand that what's being said is not meant to be taken serious. Hence the fact that I mostly omit it from written communication where ensuring this is even harder. Sarcasm can be very powerful in that it can help you when you want to force the listening party to really think about what's being said and be critical and express their opinion. On the other hand, sarcasm can also be used to really ridicule something or someone which I mostly hate so its a difficult instrument to use correctly. As a rule, I tend to reserve sarcasm for situations where it's clear that I mostly like the person or subject I'm talking about so I'm not (entirely) serious in what I say. Some very good points… I do enjoy a good bit of sarcasm but it’s indeed very important to make sure that the others in the conversation understand that what’s being said is not meant to be taken serious. Hence the fact that I mostly omit it from written communication where ensuring this is even harder. Sarcasm can be very powerful in that it can help you when you want to force the listening party to really think about what’s being said and be critical and express their opinion. On the other hand, sarcasm can also be used to really ridicule something or someone which I mostly hate so its a difficult instrument to use correctly. As a rule, I tend to reserve sarcasm for situations where it’s clear that I mostly like the person or subject I’m talking about so I’m not (entirely) serious in what I say.

]]> By: mel http://mark.ty-wharton.com/2010/02/28/sarcasm/comment-page-1/#comment-260 mel Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:36:41 +0000 http://mark.ty-wharton.com/?p=2033#comment-260 since I have known you I have learnt so much about myself. I have learnt that I used to spend a whole heap of time with unhelpful thoughts and feelings in reposnse to the things people say/the way they say them. Sarcasm is something I always used to get upset to, feeling like people were being nasty, but somehow missing the humour that was also there. I like the fact that when you say something that is all you say. There is never an undercurrent, never a hidden meaning, just honesty. It has helped me see my responses more clearly. xx since I have known you I have learnt so much about myself. I have learnt that I used to spend a whole heap of time with unhelpful thoughts and feelings in reposnse to the things people say/the way they say them. Sarcasm is something I always used to get upset to, feeling like people were being nasty, but somehow missing the humour that was also there.

I like the fact that when you say something that is all you say. There is never an undercurrent, never a hidden meaning, just honesty. It has helped me see my responses more clearly.
xx

]]> By: Kerry http://mark.ty-wharton.com/2010/02/28/sarcasm/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Kerry Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:08:16 +0000 http://mark.ty-wharton.com/?p=2033#comment-259 Well said Mark. I too am not sure of sarcasm's importance in communication. I've found in the majority that it is used as the easy way of telling a human your dismay towards an action a human has made, a slight comment, it can be offensive. Sitting here now I cannot think of one example of sarcasm that I have encountered recently and am pleased with that because it means i've not been entertaining sarcasm. Communication free of it also opens a dimension where literal praise and recognition to someone is true and loving - something that was lost a few decades ago. I have no idea when sarcasm was born, late 50s perhaps? I would say it was something born from an era of youth rebelling against society. In conciousness and in our language literal real, true and sweet ways of talking are frowned upon mostly. I enjoy talking this way with such freedom. Humans I find feel they have to spin so that what they say doesnt sound genuine. It's also that they are afraid of being genuine, which brings up the question of authenticity. Can we behave genuinely in the majority of interactions in our daily matters? I think we can. The evolution of sarcasm would be an interesting reading topic. I'll have to find search it out. Well said Mark.
I too am not sure of sarcasm’s importance in communication. I’ve found in the majority that it is used as the easy way of telling a human your dismay towards an action a human has made, a slight comment, it can be offensive. Sitting here now I cannot think of one example of sarcasm that I have encountered recently and am pleased with that because it means i’ve not been entertaining sarcasm.

Communication free of it also opens a dimension where literal praise and recognition to someone is true and loving – something that was lost a few decades ago. I have no idea when sarcasm was born, late 50s perhaps? I would say it was something born from an era of youth rebelling against society. In conciousness and in our language literal real, true and sweet ways of talking are frowned upon mostly. I enjoy talking this way with such freedom. Humans I find feel they have to spin so that what they say doesnt sound genuine. It’s also that they are afraid of being genuine, which brings up the question of authenticity. Can we behave genuinely in the majority of interactions in our daily matters? I think we can.

The evolution of sarcasm would be an interesting reading topic. I’ll have to find search it out.

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