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MrMark
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 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:17 am Post subject: Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill (LiveScience) |
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Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill
Meredith F. Small
LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist
LiveScience.com
Humans are fundamentally social animals. Our social nature means that we interact with each other in positive, friendly ways, and it also means we know how to manipulate others in a very negative way.
Neurophysiologist Katherine Rankin at the University of California, San Francisco, has also recently discovered that sarcasm, which is both positively funny and negatively nasty, plays an important part in human social interaction.
So what?
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: |
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So that means Aspies all have brain injuries on top of the autism?
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Willard
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Right. Like people who don't speak English even know what sarcasm means.
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slowmutant
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How do you say "sarcasm" in Korean? Sarcasm is likely to be an omnilingual phenomenon. Languages are fundamentally different, but the people who speak them are fundamentally the same. 
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nara44
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject: sarcasm |
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| slowmutant wrote: | | How do you say "sarcasm" in Korean? Sarcasm is likely to be an omnilingual phenomenon. Languages are fundamentally different, but the people who speak them are fundamentally the same. |
In Hebrew we say "sarcasm" because Hebrew is too ancient to cover modern aspects of life so in many instances we just use the English or Latin terms.
i think Aspies directness is rather a sign of an evolved state of the mind and NT use sarcasm because the hate the things they love.
Aspies tend to be perceived as obsessed and to be very particular in their human contact because we have much better understanding and control of the basic human contradictions,
NT are afraid to be alone but in the same time they hate and compete with other NT so they make contact by teasing and hurting each other,
this way they can still have some contact and they don't have to give up their hate to each other.
Aspies don't need this bs,
if we love we go all the way if we don't we don't,
Aspies don't use sarcasm because they are much more developed as human beings than NT. |
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Golly, what a revelation. 
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nara44
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| slowmutant wrote: | | Golly, what a revelation. |
Was those rolling eyes a sign of sarcasm  |
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Asterisp
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| I can make sarcastic comments, but most of the times it is over the top. A bit too negative and crossing 'social borders'. So I need to work on mimicking that in a proper way. |
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slowmutant
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| Quote: | | Was those rolling eyes a sign of sarcasm? |
Yes. 
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Ben_Shapiro
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| sometimes when i am talking to someone really thick i say something like well done, obviously i dont mean it but it is more that they have finally understood something that took other poeple a couple of seconds, see what i mean, not really sarcastic but also not literal |
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nara44
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| slowmutant wrote: | | Quote: | | Was those rolling eyes a sign of sarcasm? |
Yes. |
Wasn't expecting sarcasm in an aspie forum.
Did i deserved it because I'm stupid or because i stated the obvious? |
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burnse22
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| nara44 wrote: | | slowmutant wrote: | | Quote: | | Was those rolling eyes a sign of sarcasm? |
Yes. |
Wasn't expecting sarcasm in an aspie forum.
Did i deserved it because I'm stupid or because i stated the obvious? |
I think it was just because it is a topic about sarcasm, I don't think it has anything to do with you.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: sarcasm |
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| nara44 wrote: | | slowmutant wrote: | | How do you say "sarcasm" in Korean? Sarcasm is likely to be an omnilingual phenomenon. Languages are fundamentally different, but the people who speak them are fundamentally the same. |
In Hebrew we say "sarcasm" because Hebrew is too ancient to cover modern aspects of life so in many instances we just use the English or Latin terms.
i think Aspies directness is rather a sign of an evolved state of the mind and NT use sarcasm because the hate the things they love.
Aspies tend to be perceived as obsessed and to be very particular in their human contact because we have much better understanding and control of the basic human contradictions,
NT are afraid to be alone but in the same time they hate and compete with other NT so they make contact by teasing and hurting each other,
this way they can still have some contact and they don't have to give up their hate to each other.
Aspies don't need this bs,
if we love we go all the way if we don't we don't,
Aspies don't use sarcasm because they are much more developed as human beings than NT. |
O RLY?????
Yep, we're so much superior to NT's, even though Aspie's who hate NT's are just as prejudiced as NT's who hate Aspie's |
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Kalister1
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill (LiveScience |
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| MrMark wrote: | Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill
Meredith F. Small
LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist
LiveScience.com
Humans are fundamentally social animals. Our social nature means that we interact with each other in positive, friendly ways, and it also means we know how to manipulate others in a very negative way.
Neurophysiologist Katherine Rankin at the University of California, San Francisco, has also recently discovered that sarcasm, which is both positively funny and negatively nasty, plays an important part in human social interaction.
So what?
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Who the hell cares?
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LePetitPrince
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: sarcasm |
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| nara44 wrote: | | slowmutant wrote: | | How do you say "sarcasm" in Korean? Sarcasm is likely to be an omnilingual phenomenon. Languages are fundamentally different, but the people who speak them are fundamentally the same. |
In Hebrew we say "sarcasm" because Hebrew is too ancient to cover modern aspects of life so in many instances we just use the English or Latin terms.
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it's سخرية in Arabic....spelled as Sokhriya.
| Quote: | i think Aspies directness is rather a sign of an evolved state of the mind and NT use sarcasm because the hate the things they love.
Aspies tend to be perceived as obsessed and to be very particular in their human contact because we have much better understanding and control of the basic human contradictions,
NT are afraid to be alone but in the same time they hate and compete with other NT so they make contact by teasing and hurting each other,
this way they can still have some contact and they don't have to give up their hate to each other.
Aspies don't need this bs,
if we love we go all the way if we don't we don't,
Aspies don't use sarcasm because they are much more developed as human beings than NT. |
This only what you think
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