sarcasm and passive-aggressiveness ensue, which do not invite collaboration. A classic example is a person who must care for an elderly parent. Let us imagine that aside from legitimate needs ...

New Yorkers use more sarcasm than people living in Southern states, for example. While you don’t need to keep a strict tally of how often you use sarcasm around your kids, there’s no need to ...

Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to distinguish in online communities. So much, in fact, that a famous internet rule called Poe’s Law is named after the phenomenon. To adapt, users have adopted ...