The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm delivers the perfect bathroom reading material. Not that you give a crap, as the author might say. James Napoli, who bills himself on the cover as executive vice ...

Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines sarcasm as “a taunting, sneering, cutting or caustic remark,” while the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary–which calls itself the “one of the world’s most ...

It’s funny how sarcasm is associated with humor. “To tear flesh like a dog,” is not a jolly image, but the word nonetheless derives from the Greek sarkazein, meaning just that. It evolved to mean “to ...

“I remember hearing her say stuff and figuring out that she didn't mean what she said,” says Walker, who leads the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab at UC Santa Cruz. “She used to say ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Evan Vucci, The Associated Press Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks Saturday during a campaign rally in Fairfield, Conn. Re: “In reversal, ...

OK, I do have a T-shirt which has the title of this column as the message on the shirt. And, I might have another T-shirt which says something like, “Sarcasm – Just One of the Many Free Services I ...