In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

Psychologists generally agree that sarcasm is hostility disguised as borderline wit or tongue-in-cheek humor. Some of us are gifted at ongoing cynicism but we’re all guilty of tacky talk at one time ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

Sometimes a dose of sarcasm is just what the doctor ordered. Twitter user Ben S recently developed a “sarcasm converter” for keyboards with two rather cheap Raspberry Pi Pico boards. One can implement ...

Researchers say their new algorithm trained on a database of various TV show clips can detect sarcasm 75% of the time. By Tom Hawking Published May 17, 2024 1:17 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

The online Oxford Dictionary defines ironic as happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this. I find it ironic/amusing that Lauren Boebert ...

After years of micro-bags hogging the spotlight, it comes as no surprise that Gen Z is rebelling against the itty-bitty, impractical trend with a pivot to oversized totes. But what is surprising is ...