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Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia
An anonymous reader writes "Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but Australian scientists are using it to diagnose dementia, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of New South Wales, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
Studies also found that old people who do not have dementia are likely to whack you with their canes for sassing them.
Doctor: "Oh, yeaaaa, you're normal"
Patient: "Why you little whippernapper! *WHACK* *WHACK*"
Doctor: "No! Ow! No! It was a medical test!
Patient: "I lived through 15 wars and 5 depressions, and I'm not going to let some damn young quack backtalk me in the name of science!" *WHACK* *WHACK*
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In certain Ethiopic languages, sarcasm is indicated with a sarcasm mark, a character that looks like a backwards question mark at the end of a sentence, similar to Alcanter de Brahm's proposed irony mark ().
So did the fledgeling movement of Slashdotters who proposed using the tilde ~ as the sarcasm mark beat them to it?
<sarcasm>Really?</sarcasm>
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
...90% of the internet is demented.
I traded all my mod points for these magic beans.
What a great idea.
If you're wondering if you've got dementia, and you thought this comment was sarcastic, then you have because it wasn't.
If you're not wondering if you've got dementia, then you have too because it totally was sarcastic.
Or maybe it's me who has dementia. I don't know if I'm being sarcastic. Oh dear.
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I don't get it.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Since sarcasm is notoriously difficult to convey online, does this mean the Internet is a dementia simulator? Actually, that would explain a lot of things...
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
But they call it "irony"
Yeah, Right.
Don't worry, you're not senile, everyone forgets to zip down sometimes...
Empathy issues ...
They find it difficult to interact with people, they don't pick up on social cues, they lack empathy [and] they make bad judgements," he said.
Oh, fsck, and there I was hoping it was only my lack of social skills.. I better prepare for my demented future.
You assume EVERYTHING is sarcasm?
Punch drunk, and without bail.
Wow. I never knew there were so many demented people on Slashdot.
Apparently everyone I know has dementia.
Maybe sarcasm is good to identify other diseases as well. That's why House is so good!
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
No, seriously, I really do have this medical problem that really does make me have to sound like I'm being sarcastic all the time. I really mean what I'm saying. I'm really not trying to sound like this.
Or something like that. I gotta youtube that later.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Australian scientists have determined that a disproportionate percentage of Anonymous Cowards suffer from dementia.
. . .all of my professors are already demented, then.
My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore.
Does that mean 97% of Americans have dementia?
Practice being sarcastic in a way that sounds a lot like how you normally talk. When you do it more with body language and word choice than tone of voice, it's amazing how many people will fail to pick up on it.
Doctors Recommend Reading Slashdot to Diagnose Dementia.
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Then I'm good to go.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
I am tired of people trying to appear insightful by
stating an obvious irony in a sneering and sometimes exaggerated way,
but this research will be of immediate use to all of humanity.
So I say God's speed to those brave Australian scientists and their noble cause.
The world salutes you!
Who can't detect sarcasm either. One of my friends can't pick up sarcasm in the least.
One of our favorite pastimes is going over to his dorm and saying all the sarcastic things we can think of and watching him freak out. Good god, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
This sig is false.
That's original!
I've known my wife was demented for years
Do tell, bright light.
Whoever said that sarcasm was the lowest form of wit never lived with my former room-mate. He could hardly ever get a sentence out without some word play mixed in. It was constant pun-ishment.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Studies also found that old people who do not have dementia are likely to whack you with their canes for sassing them.
Doctor: "Oh, yeaaaa, you're normal" Patient: "Why you little whippernapper! *WHACK* *WHACK*" Doctor: "No! Ow! No! It was a medical test! Patient: "I lived through 15 wars and 5 depressions, and I'm not going to let some damn young quack backtalk me in the name of science!" *WHACK* *WHACK*
People really eat this shit up, don't they? Not a god damned thing was funny about this, but it still got the mandatory +5 Funny like too many other lame unoriginal jokes.
"Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but Australian scientists are using it to diagnose dementia, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of New South Wales, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
I have suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia since the age of 15. I'm 33 now, and I can say from my own personal experience that this is very true.
One of the many reasons I have trouble 'fitting in', especially at social gatherings, is my inability to detect sarcasm. It can be terrifying when someone says something that could be interpreted 'literally' as demeaning or cruel but is only 'joking around' etc.
I'm better now than I was, but usually only after getting to know a person well. Surprisingly however, even people I've known for 5+ years can still be sarcastic occasionally and it will go right over my head. They know about my illness however, and on occasions like those do me the favor of pointing out they were just being sarcastic, which helps.
I think the approach in the article could be a great diagnostic tool for early detection of these types of mental illness...I suffered from schizophrenia without knowing I had it for almost 10 years. My life fell to pieces; that and my family and friends (the few I had left) finally convinced me I had a problem. I was the last to know I had schizophrenia...and it has been very very difficult coming to terms with it.
Maybe if it was detected earlier I could have been treated earlier, and the damage to my life and my state of mind might have been mitigated considerably. I don't know.
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...parody is being used to detect Alzheimer's disease, and satire to detect lupus.
The hammer is my penis.
Can you detect when people are purposefully ignoring it? The quickest way to get people to stop being sarcastic is to take them literally.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
"Oooh, a sarcasm detector. That's a really useful invention."
...or they might be autistic. Nice of them to jump to conclusions.
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I hereby propose that the customary "whoosh" be replaced with "You may have Frontotemporal Dementia. Please see your physician."
with a great love of sacrasm, I've noticed that there is a definite geographical component to it. For example, while traveling in the South, I discovered that my use of sarcasm was frequently either taken at face value, or misinterpreted as me just being an asshole. For instance, saying something like "nice weather today" (when it clearly is not) is an icebreaker that works across socioeconomic lines in a place like MA. However, [in my experience] in the South, uttering something so baldly wrong often earns you the you-are-an-idiot look. So while this test may be useful in cultures that actually use/value sarcasm, I think it may be less useful in ones that do not.
Oh really?
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At least I know now that my parents aren't showing any early signs.... and if using sarcasm is a good indicator that someone is not at immediate risk, then my mother should never have to worry.
Some people just can't detect sarcasm (and they largely overlap with people with slow wits). Children are also known to fail to understand sarcasm until they hit a certain level of intellectual maturity.
In order for this test to work, you'd have to be checked regularly.
I can never claim I'm a master of sarcasm. I tend to accept things at face value unless someone says something that's completely out of character or nonsense. I can't help it that's just the way I am. Over time as I learn a person's personality I tend to anticipate sarcastic remarks. It takes me a while to pick up on tone of voice, and body language associated with sarcasm because each person's presentation is unique. Frankly I don't know how most people read sarcasm. I'm not demented and I tend to think of myself as being reasonably smart, so I tend to believe mastering sarcasm is not universal human trait so measuring dementia based on lack of perception of sarcasm cannot be that accurate. I will say that my inability to read sarcasm, among other things, causes many of my friends and colleagues to claim that I seem to have Asperger's syndrome but I haven't been diagnosed with it by a physician.
My whole family must be suffering from frontotemporal dementia. They had to stoop to the level of giving me a sarcasm sign so they would know I'm being sarcastic.
And what about Dr Sheldon Cooper, PhD? I thought he was a genius, not demented.
I always knew they were a little nuts
"Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit..." - why so? Just because sarcasm is viewed as offensive in the Western society doesn't mean it is the lowest form of wit.
you are most probably sane
if you are certain of your sanity, you very well coudl be insane
sarcasm is an outward expression of doubting that which is said with certainty
and so in the end the act of doubting yourself is the only grasp any of us have on our sanity
long live sarcasm
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Wait! Who the hell are you people?! GET OFF MY LAWN!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
So Sheldon has dementia?
~According to this I have dementia.
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GP> those do me the favor of pointing out they were just being sarcastic
Parent is just being sarcastic. I think you've heard what parent said plenty of times, and hopefully you've learned that it's a joke.
But if not, just to avoid you worrying: they're not out to get you. Parent is sarcastic.
[My conscience said someone had to say it. You can all move along now]
First of all, I feel very sorry for you and I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but what are you doing on Slashdot, man?!? This place is full of socially challenged idiots pretending to be smart by using sarcasm (ummm... yeah, I realize I'm part of the crowd, but I don't care). Unfortunately, today's Slashdot coolness is often confused with funny sarcastic comments, instead of serious insightful comments.
I'm also curious, how do you detect sarcasm in writing, if it's not specially marked, as one of the first comments suggests? Honestly, I have a small problem with sarcasm, too: in speech, I use too much sarcasm and other people often don't understand me, but when someone uses it I find it difficult to understand them. On the other hand, I'm close to the average when it comes to reading/writing.
From my own experience I have noticed that people
in the very start of a psykosis episode also suffers from not beeing able to understand sarcasm.
This is before they show any real signs of the mental illness.
I lived together with a woman many years that had this kind of problems and I used sarcasm to check her up so to speak. It never failed to indicate when she was about to have a new episode and to be prepared to help her out.
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I dunno lol
All the way to the last sentence?
Or was that sarcasm?
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Thanks!
I'm terrible at dealing with sarcasm. At work, I'm very straight forward, and all but the most extreme bits of sarcasm are usually lost on me. I'll take what you say at face value and work from there.
It's worked out well for me, but maybe I'm just being demented.
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That makes Matthew Perry a walking dementia detector.
Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit...
Never, never begin a submission with a clever aside. You're absolutely begging to be contradicted!
Here's the kind of wit that's lowest in my esteem, in rough order of lowness. Oddly enough, they're all popular on Slashdot!
No wonder my wife can never tell when I am joking...
Wait, what was I doing here?!?
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
I don't know if this is common or not, but an EMT seemed to use this once to tell if I was going to pass out. I had broken my upper arm and at some point I guess I was looking whiter than usual (according to my friends). After putting the arm in a sling the EMT looked at me very seriously and said something like "What's the problem? You're a big guy. What's the big deal?" I was confused for a moment, then I realized he was being sarcastic and I laughed. When I did, he smiled, patted me on the (other) shoulder and announced "Yeah, he's okay. He'll be fine."
I thought that was a pretty good way to tell how out of it I was. Of course some people don't get sarcasm at all, so it might not work all the time.
"A sarcasm detector... that's a REAL useful invention." [BOOM]
/.~ looks good to me
Also, the tilde could be automatically applied to first posts everywhere. Now this is true automation at work.~
This is a really interesting perspective, thank you. I don't know a lot about schizophrenia but now that you point it out, of course this would be a problem, because as a schizophrenic it would be hard for you to know what is reasonable for someone to be saying and what is not.
A poster below asks, "how can you detect sarcasm in writing?" It's the test of reasonability. It's harder with strangers but it is part of reading comprehension to determine from tone and context what it would be reasonable for someone to put forward.
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sarcasm is cultural.... I grew up in Jamaica, after moving to the US I had a very hard time understanding sarcasm which is very common here. In my experience growing up in Jamaica sarcasm wasn't common at all.
No, *puns* are the lowest form. Sarcasm is the tool of the enlightened.
"I am REALLY sorry you are going through this grandma"
Why are there repeat references to articles at cosmosmagazine.com when it's already been established recently that it can't handle Slashdot traffic? A quick Google search with "sarcasm dementia" shows that there are TONS of other sources reporting this same news. Please reference another source that can actually handle the traffic so we can actually RTFA, okay?
Interesting. I had the displeasure of working for a sociopath once, and noted that he was utterly unable to process humor normally. He literally had to look around at others to figure out whether he should be laughing...
What about false positives among people with Autism? Their decreased ability to detect sarcasm could easily throw up some red flags on this test.
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I have suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia since the age of 15. I'm 33 now, and I can say from my own personal experience that this is very true.
One of the many reasons I have trouble 'fitting in', especially at social gatherings, is my inability to detect sarcasm. It can be terrifying when someone says something that could be interpreted 'literally' as demeaning or cruel but is only 'joking around' etc.
I think your friends are being passive agressive and there's nothing wrong with you. KILL THEM ALL.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
From TFA:
That sounds almost like a textbook description of Asperger's Syndrome. Hmmmm....
This article just helped me to realize that I have dementia!
Remember Yall happiness is a North Bound Yankee!
For you Yankees
~Happiness is a North Bound Yankee
At least they are safe from the evil of Doug Piranha. If we could just get Dinsdale to stop nailing their heads to the floor, we'd be set.
Sarcasm in an individual culture does reflect the styles of speech / humor of that culture. Thus someone from Mexico who is a native speaker of Spanish is less likely to get a joke told by someone in France in French even if the Mexican knows French. At the same time, a joke told in Spanish by a Mexican to this same Mexican is likely to be understood. Humor and sarcasm are closely related and they are culturally based. The problem is that if the tests are modified to be based on people who grew up in a given culture with sarcastic remarks made by someone from the same culture, then they likely have relevance as noted in the article.
Marge: Where's Bart? I haven't seen him since you came home.
Homer: [Sarcastically'] Oh, you haven't seen Bart for a few hours, so you automatically assume I let something terrible happen.
Marge: I didn't say that.
Homer: [still sarcastic] I know what you think... when stupid Homer wasn't looking, Bart got kidnapped by a monkey.
Marge: [concerned] I could never think of something that horrible!
Homer: [still sarcastic] And now I'm using sarcasm to confess the whole thing, so later I can say that I already told you!
Marge: Sorry I asked. [leaves.]
Lisa: Dad, you can't keep this up for long.
Homer: [still sarcastic] Oh, you're so right, I guess I should be more concerned with Bart's safety than covering my own butt! And maybe I'm talking like this, because I can't stop! HELP ME LISA! I HAVE SERIOUS MENTAL PROBLEMS!
automagical is defined as:
The more you know...
A shot in the dark, but is anybody else reminded of the premise of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni?
My girlfriend is pretty gullible at times should I be concerned?
Nice to learn that you are better.
In an earlier post I revealed that my spouse had a problem with psykosis episodes that started after her first childbirth. I noticed that before every episode she was unable to understand sarcasm and after a few episodes I used that to check her out by using sarcasm.
Interstingly, when she was completly well she understood sarcasm easily but in the very very beginning of an episode she wouldn't understand sarcasm and I used that as an indicator to get ready to help her out.
We no longer live together and she is an old woman now and all her psykosis episodes is just a memory and she is now very well.
I'm curious to learn if there was periods when you were able to understand sarcasm like my former spouse?
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I agree. It's important and educational to talk about moderations. His first sentence is probably not coprophobic, despite the fact that that's the usual troll first post about half the time.
His second sentence contains a multiplicity of clauses. You begin with attempting to descrive God Damning something, which might be the highest form of blasphemy in the fewest possible number of letters. Last I knew that amount of gravity in that small a space was a recipe for creating a black hole.
Now, do I try to fly a kite on the backdraft of the whoosh accusation, or do I get a +1 Ben Stein mod?
(Always talk to the mods in a post. It makes them happy.)
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What about people from Betelgeuse? :P
I don't feel like it...
Sorry for being off topic, but I'd like to thank you grumpy for sharing that! I find these kinds of posts very interesting.
It opens all sorts of new career possibilities for Don Rickles.
I have suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia since the age of 15. I'm 33 now
Wow, you've been using the Internet for quite awhile then!
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Well, he is making fun of someone with a legitimate mental illness who had the courage to stick his neck out there. We all got the joke, but that's kind of like kicking a puppy in terms of basic human decency.
I wouldn't worry so much about the humor-impaired as the humanity-impaired.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I recall an experiment I read about many years ago where the subject had their hearing artificially impaired. This person was put into a situation with people he or she did not know. These other people were having a humorous conversation - unrelated to the subject. Since the subject could not hear the conversation, he or she made the assumption that the conversation was about him/her. This fed into paranoia and resentment.
I don't suffer from either paranoia or schizophrenia (my other personality does, har har) - but I can only imagine how difficult it would be. I guess I would really need to build a system of benefit of the doubt in order to cope.
Oh ho! He say "Nice day," but he covered with rain!
He say this when your know is not really nice day.
Yes. He say the opposite. Is funny.
-Vlad, the foreign guy from work who taught Peter about sarcasm.
We all wondered how satirist Stephen Colbert was invited to the 2006 White House correspondents dinner, now we know;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4973617448770513925
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"Researchers at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
-I guess this means that most cops are suffering from dementia.
This handy dandy little piece of information would have been helpful to know a while ago, especially before I told that Highway Patrolwomen she could put me in handcuffs anytime she wanted to.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Really?
Us Asperger types (speaking only for myself) arent very good at detecting and reacting to other people's emotion. This sounds quite like early dementia.
Investigator: And in this picture, you see a woman holding a limp puppy in her lap next to an autocopter with a red smudge on the hood. Isn't that cool? Someone totally wiped out that puppy! Potential Replicant: No! It's awful. That poor woman and her poor little puppy! Investigator: Replicant! You're a replicant because you didn't understand that I was using sarcasm about it being cool that the puppy was hurt. And furthermore, you didn't show empathy with the woman. Oh wait...
Please! Sarcasm is the highest form of humor. It requires a good deal of intelligence to understand well crafted sarcasm.
Note the list of people who have trouble detecting sarcasm:
Dementia sufferers .NET programmers
Aspergers syndrome sufferers
Autism sufferers
Rednecks
Republicans
Fundamentalists
And it's quite obvious that all these people are suffering from mental disorders so it makes sense why they can't detect sarcasm.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
Yeah, there are times to pull out the sharpest of sharp wit and make a mockery of the intellect of those around you, as they clamber for footholds trying to sort out what was just said and what was actually implied, but doing so during an interview might not be the most opportune time. Why on earth would a manager want to hire someone smarter and better than them, and happy to flaunt it.
The problem with sharp wit - especially combined with a good poker face is that it very often leaves new aquaintances struggling to work out whether you are being a total wad or a comedic miracle.
A funny story I remember was at a friends birthday party, I was introduced to some guests, one of which was a reasonably muscular and certainly trim man. The conversation was about a diet that he had started to lose some weight (I again point out that he was in really good physical shape by all appearances) and I was asked if he needed to lose more. I put on my sarcastic hat and said along the lines of "Yes, he totally needs to lose some pounds, look at him, I mean, such a fatty boombalada, it's bordering on gross." There were a few uncomfortable laughs. I didn't think much more of it until I was quietly asked by the birthday girl (who had been introducing me to the others) if I also thought that she was fat. After a brief pause, it appeared that even though she knew me quite well, surprise sarcasm may not always be either obvious to the audience and can backfire if it isn't picked up. (Once I turned down the sit meter from "subtle sarcasm" to "loud and sometimes crude" the evening went smashingly though, with a highlight being convincing a girl to - no less - snort parmesan cheese through a $20)
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I can't detect sarcasm! I'm done for!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Look at it this way: At least you're not in denial. That's probably the biggest hurdle, and that you overcame it at such a young age meant you saved yourself from a significant amount of pain and suffering later on.
Paranoid schizophrenia is one of the most difficult mental illnesses to acknowledge, so kudos to you for being able to do it.
The effectiveness of various coping techniques vary by personality, but one thing I have learned is that the paranoia portion is typically tied to some form of insecurity. Getting rid of that will at least solve half of the equation (for example, if somebody says something blatantly untrue, the insecure and confused person would say nothing and stay confused, but the merely confused person would ask for confirmation, e.g. "You're kidding right?").
The other half, well, I've found that the ability to differenciate between dream and reality, and the acknowledgment that the brain is an imprecise memory device, probably are pretty good places to start.
But considering that you've been coping with this for some 18 years, you probably already know this, so I'd say the above was more intended for the people who aren't so sure now that they've read this article.
I think the scientists are just proving we're all f-ed in the head. :D
"Patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
Also known as ignorance. The best sarcasm is only marginally detectable. It's not wit, it's snobbery.
One of the many reasons I have trouble 'fitting in', especially at social gatherings, is my inability to detect sarcasm. It can be terrifying when someone says something that could be interpreted 'literally' as demeaning or cruel but is only 'joking around' etc.
A lot of normal people have problems understanding others' intentions; I know I sometimes do. I usually respond with some form of "Are you joking?", "You're joking", or some such. I also will simply not respond if that is possible, like when in a group.
I also tend not associate with those who say things I do not like. That tends to fall out of me being rather open with how I think: a possibly mean/joking comment sometimes gets a "That's not nice" in a light-hearted tone, which is taken as a joke by those who were joking and a rebuff by those who were serious.
Oh, and thank you for your post. I find it very instructive to know how others think/feel. It helps me understand the world and how to make it a better place. And good luck.
Isn't cluelessness with respect to sarcasm also a pointy-haired boss trait?
Many of us suffer from autism or Asperger's syndrome, sometimes undiagnosed, and have had to study and learn the cues of sarcasm and other social interactions. It is easier for some of us, and harder for others. Some may be good enough to pass for normal. Some of us may simply have been raised according to Spock. Not Doctor. Mister.
yet another danger of humoring rude doctors.
Doctors Recommend Reading Slashdot to Cause Dementia.
There, I fixed that for you.
"I was the last to know I had schizophrenia"
Are you sure the other you wasn't the last? INSERTOBLIGATORYJUSTKIDDINGDISCLAIMERSOASTOAVOIDHURTING$RANDOMPERSON'SFEELINGS.
+1 for pointing out that a word exists for fear of feces.
Ironic?
--"It's Bradford Company, slash your last name, dot your first name"
You begin with attempting to descrive God Damning something,
Speaking as a possibly sometimes demented coprophagous antiquarian, I must protest your descrivtion (sic) of us older anally retentive (or sometimes all too anally expressive) folk.
Multiplicity of clauses? Migod!
The planet Earth's orbit (OK, the northern hemisphere) is approaching the winter solstice!
There is only ONE Claus! Our savory Saviour.
Give it a break, you 2-bit punk. Go back to digg more sarcasm.
Bah! Fuckin' junior blasphemoids...Let Gravity swallow you up in its awesome non-forgiving black hole!
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F U
You probably got a dirty look just because you were a northerner criticizing southern weather. Pretty much anything you say, apart from "Man, I wish I was born down here--it's much better!" is going to be taken as disrespectful, insulting, and so on. The south has a huge inferiority complex (well-earned, IMO), and they'll assume you're talking down to them even if you aren't. I was born/raised in Texas, BTW. Now where did I leave that Dr. Pepper...
Thanks for the post. I have at least two people in my (not close however) proximity, that suffer from schizophrenia and I just do not know how to communicate with them. Now I see, where the problem might be - my favorite way is usually based on irony/sarkasm.
Me too, or at least I used to before I realised I could understand exactly what their intentions were, the confusing part was why they are always lying about them.
Actually I'm not. His friends are being passive aggressive if they do stuff that pisses him off and then tell him they are just joking and it's his fault that he doesn't 'get it'. Fuck those guys, they're the ones with a problem, not him.
He seems pretty coherent here so I assume he's able to grasp that killing people is a bad idea and thus that I was joking.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
when one can embrace a sardonic view and have the best of both edges?
Obviously you have dementia, as the sarcasm in the GP's post is the most oblivious form. Even the blunt ``You are a socially inept nerd who can't knot his shoes and will never get laid!'' on /. isn't as anvilicious!
...was where the demons live. What can we diagnose with puns?
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
I will be more observant/sensitive when flexing my wry sense of humor around new acquaintances.
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
...just add fixin' to your lexicon. Wait, isn't lexicon in Massachusetts?
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
...is the pun. And I spent three years in the punitentiary!
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
...made with those little tinned fish? Be careful you don't cut yourself, Mordechai!
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
Or are you just pulling my leg?
Anyway, people with dementia also serve to fill in the missing pieces by making things up ("confabulation" is the unnecessarily obtuse term for it), frequently accusing people of saying or doing things against them when in fact they had no such intention. Thus, people with dementia should also often mistake plain statements for sarcasm.
Humor, now, that one would be hard to mistake. You may not think it's funny, but you get it or you don't. No mistaking it being personally directed. Much better diagnostic IMO.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
In the above pathetic AC post the word nigger should be replaced by "this poster" in all cases.
I for one am sick of these fucking moron racists.
Free speech or not these kind of posts should be removed completely, they contribute nothing to the discussion.
WHy dont you fuck off back to 4chan where pea brains like you belong.
If you had any courage at all, you would not hide behind an anonymous login.
FOAD assholes.
Researchers began studying the role of sarcasm in detecting FTD, because it requires a patient to spot discrepancies between a person's words and the tone of their voice, Hodges said.
I wonder how they separated the demented patients from the ones who are merely tone deaf. In the diagnosed-Alzheimer's group, we should assume some have varying degrees of hearing loss as well, but that their diagnosis is less likely to be a spurious result of their hearing loss. Because shouting five times a day for lunch would be as reliable for diagnosing Alzheimer's as asking five times a day for lunch, in a normal voice. An Alzheimer's diagnosis does not seem likely to be confused with hearing problems, even though they are likely to be coincident in many cases, just because of advanced age. In the suspected-dementia group, however, controlling for hearing loss would seem to be absolutely necessary, especially because they are proposing to diagnose dementia on an ability that relies directly on tone detection. Nothing in the article says the researchers didn't do that, it just doesn't say anything about it at all.
1.5 pages is a respectable length for an abstract, not a summary of a funded scientific study, of pretty much any research topic. Slashdot science articles are generally fascinating, but ultimately, unsatisfying without access to the original. Not that I'd always go to the trouble of reading through the entire thing, but often I'd want to Ctrl+F for at least one string to see whether the research included _____.
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The lowest form!?! Sarcasm is the purest form of humour.