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Carlos, are we in complete understanding with each other?"
"Yeah," I say. "As long as it's not in your house and you don't know about it, you're okay with us messin' around."
"I know you're joking with me. You are joking with me, aren't you?"
"Maybe.
Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.
Seeming to do is not doing.
You haven't offended me at all. You've made me think. That's all.
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
I do sarcasm really poorly.
presumptuous - but he's got to he with someone
To take offense is to give offense.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ]
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
Sarcasm is irony which has lost its soul
If you're offended, it's your problem.
Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.
The meaning lies in the appropriation.
Give me ambiguity or something else.
Nothing is implied here. Except the possibility that everything is connected.
Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.
Only felines were better than humans at sarcasm.
You know sometimes words have two meanings.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
How dare you think?
Sarcasm is a bad mood trying to be clever,
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Do you think we'll get married one day?" I said.
"To each other?" Charlie asked.
"No, silly. I mean to other people." (But really, I'd meant to each other.)
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, Miss Steele.
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
All meaning comes from analogies.
Are your ellipses (...) implying something significant or do you just enjoy abusing grammar for no reason?
True wit has a grave intention.
Black implies white self implies other
Without context words and actions have no meaning at all
You see," I explained to Joshua, "what Joy is doing is ironic, yet that's not her intent. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm."
"No kidding?" said Josh.
"Why do I waste my time with you?
No one should be offended - that's not my style.
See The Meaning Not The Problem
When you make a bet, you're saying something.
Among people who might be described as having at least a passing regard for the English language, there are few instances of usage that evoke a desire to mutilate more than the perceived misuse of literally.
No action is safe from meaning.
You think us fairies don't understand sarcasm? We invented sarcasm.
If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.
Hey. So. You're the new cook?" Oof, yes, ask the guy cooking if he's the new cook.
"Yeah! Isn't this place amazing?"
"There ... was no sarcasm in that statement. I'm confused.
He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.
Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink to those thirsting for laughter ...
I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'
Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.
sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.
Never assume. Ask.
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..
Sometimes, child, we die in metaphor.
I never meant to antagonize anyone.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
concerning whose
Sorry, poppet," I tell Aoife. "I was miles away." "No, you weren't. You're right here." "I was miles away metaphorically." "What's meta ... frickilly?" "The opposite of literally." "What's litter-lily?" "The opposite of metaphorically." Aoife pouts. "Be serious, Daddy.
Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.
The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.
I reframed the situation
When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.
It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe."
Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.
Some days I am all about the ironic gesture
wondering whether
did something funny with the definite article.
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.
Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
intentional: if you meddle in our affairs, we'll
If the idea comes to you that
Look, dudes, we didn't come this far down the rabbit hole to stop on the one-yard line in the middle of like Nazi headquarters," said Nick. "Did we?" "No, but if you tried, you could probably mix a few more metaphors," said Elise.
Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.
Me? I'm being ridiculous? You're the one flirting for your thesis. What the hell kind of degree is that anyway? A doctorate of dick tease?
Your Abnegation is showing,
What a fucking joke.
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.
Assuming a thing ain't knowing a thing.
A joke is a very serious thing.
Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult.
Clever move. Using humour to deflate my murderous intent.
Insulting to my mother, of course, considering how
Assumptions are dangerous things.
ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
I don't really mean what I'm saying.-- David Foster
You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning
and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
The most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.
I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.
Stop taking my book so literally.
Now it was our little joke, signifying nothing.
It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.'
By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
You think I'm mad. Perhaps I am.
Over and out." "You obviously-- E.l. James
you can make mean anything.
Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of thi<>ng>ngng>s,
You live for pretentious metaphors.
Violet: "Are you guilting me into coming?" I glare over the rim of my mug.
Mom: "Not at all. I'm just throwing out hypotesticals."
Violet: "I cough-choke. "Do you mean hypotheticals?"
Mom: "That's what I said.