TL;DR — After some deep thinking, I've concluded that sarcasm is a waste of my time. Read on if you'd like to know why. Cicero, in On the Orator , says that, “The most common kind of joke is that in which we expect one thing and another is said;…” I don't "get" sarcasm. I've never really caught on to the art of it (to which my loved ones can attest). Even my attempts at light-hearted facetiousness (a form of sarcasm ) have been met with confusion, resulting in awkward attempts at explanation and apologies. To make things worse, my natural dryness regularly come off as sarcasm when it's not intending to be. To avoid future awkwardness, I'd either need to hone my skill, or cut sarcasm out of my communication completely. To help me decide what to do, I read 10 web articles after searching the most-applicable queries related to sarcasm . (Note: I grouped the following like terms: satiric , facetious , sarcastic , and sardonic , which al...
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