Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt". Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, although sarcasm is not necessarily ironic.
Most noticeable in spoken word, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoken and is largely context-dependent. Sarcasm does not translate into text-only mediums, such as online chat.
== Origin of the term ==
The word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós) which is taken from σαρκάζειν (sarkázein) meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer".It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation...
The multiverse, also known as an omniverse or meta-universe, is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "other universes", or "alternate universes".
== History of the concept ==
In Dublin in 1952, Erwin Schrödinger gave a lecture in which he jocularly warned his audience that what he was about to say might "seem lunatic". He said that when his equations seemed...
I've noticed a user (ID 5022812) who's been a user for three years, but has, in the last three days, started suggesting lots of edits (56 at the moment) with a similar pattern:
Adding pointless whitespace into the post, e.g. #1, #2, #3, #4, #5. In fact I think all but two of the 55 edits insert...
I want to know the answer to the below questions, based on your understanding of Game of Thrones.
If Bran is the Three-eyed-raven/Old man on the tree that was inside the cave in seasons 4 and 5.
How did the old man get there, was that old man like an illusion, I don't think it's an illusion b...
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Once in a while someone misbehaves on multiple sites at the same time, usually by posting spam or offensive content. We have the ability to apply a network-wide suspension in those cases and it is prominently annotated on every site profile belonging to the same account:
This account is tempo...
![U[unprintable glyph]: The elements a higher power uses to bend that moral arc. U[even more unprintable glyph]: The higher power's overall experience bending that moral arc.](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ui_vs_ux.png "U[unprintable glyph]: The elements a higher power uses to bend that moral arc. U[even more unprintable glyph]: The higher power's overall experience bending that moral arc.")
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