Kook j Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Sarcasm
Hi,teachers I have two questions.
Lowell Wood recounts a lecture he once gave,during which he mentioned that a strastospheric shield could also filter out damaging ultraviolet rays. An audience member suggested that fewer ultraviolet rays would lead to more people gettion rickets.
"My response,"Wood says,"was that your pharmacist can take care of it with vitamin D,and it'll better for your overall health as well."
All the rocket scientists,climate scientists,phtsicists,and engineers around the IV coference table chuckle at Wood's riposite.Then someone asks if IV,with Budyko's Branket up its sleeve,should be working toward a rickets-prevention patent. Now they laugh loder.
This is an excerpt from one of my books. In the book,Lowell Wood is introduced as a scientist who suggested IV(an invention company)to invent a machine to create a stratospheric shield( named Budyko's branket)for climate stabilization.
Questions:
1.I found the underlined comment rather tricky. Am I right?
2.If so can I call this kind of comments sarcastic?
Lowell Wood recounts a lecture he once gave,during which he mentioned that a strastospheric shield could also filter out damaging ultraviolet rays. An audience member suggested that fewer ultraviolet rays would lead to more people gettion rickets.
"My response,"Wood says,"was that your pharmacist can take care of it with vitamin D,and it'll better for your overall health as well."
All the rocket scientists,climate scientists,phtsicists,and engineers around the IV coference table chuckle at Wood's riposite.Then someone asks if IV,with Budyko's Branket up its sleeve,should be working toward a rickets-prevention patent. Now they laugh loder.
This is an excerpt from one of my books. In the book,Lowell Wood is introduced as a scientist who suggested IV(an invention company)to invent a machine to create a stratospheric shield( named Budyko's branket)for climate stabilization.
Questions:
1.I found the underlined comment rather tricky. Am I right?
2.If so can I call this kind of comments sarcastic?
Top answer
I don't think I would call it sarcasm. It's just a joke.
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I found the comment sarcastic because that was made soon after the other guy's comment ''Budyko's Branket(or its effect)could lead to people getting ricket.''
Is there any specific rule for being srcastic?
Thanks.
Is there any specific rule for being srcastic?
Thanks.
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Hi,
sarcasm -
Generally speaking, here's the idea.
Sarcasm involves an intention to hurt the other person in some major or minor way.
It often involves ironic wit, sometimes clever.
sarcasm -
Generally speaking, here's the idea.
Sarcasm involves an intention to hurt the other person in some major or minor way.
It often involves ironic wit, sometimes clever.
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Hi,Clive.
Clivean intention to hurt the other person in some major or minor way.This seems to have an important role in sarcasm,doesn't it?
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Hi,
Yes. Although the sarcastic person often just sees it as being witty.
Clive
Yes. Although the sarcastic person often just sees it as being witty.
Clive
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