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@am*3 wrote:

What about in real life?  LOL at answer being only about posting on forums.

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A classic,- though not very subtle - example. I don't think we are meant to believe Am is really laughing out loud.

I think some people confuse sarcasm with wit..........

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@azureline** wrote:

I think some people confuse sarcasm with wit..........

 

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sarcasm does fall under wit. 

by whose definition?

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:

I think some people confuse sarcasm with wit..........

 

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sarcasm does fall under wit. 

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The lowest form of wit or not?

''Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.''
Rex Stout, as Nero Wolfe (!)

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

― Oscar Wilde (debateable whether he actually said those words exactly)

Wit is being funny and clever at the same time.

Dictionary meaning (Oxford)

the use of irony to mock or convey contempt:

she didn’t like the note of sarcasm in his voice