Comments | unitarian_jihad: Are irony & sarcasm similar?

uu_mom in unitarian_jihad

Are irony & sarcasm similar?

Jun 04, 2008 14:35

The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) was sent to me because I've been diagnosed with frontal brain atrophe. When I being forced to go to the hospital recently, I yelled out "I'm going to write a book!" in my poor attempt to keep from going. I thought I'd write about all the irony there. A hospital is no place for sick people. I wonder if Jon ( Read more... )

sarcasm, humor, irony

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uthersrg June 4 2008, 21:22:27 UTC

Not looking to provoke anything here, just raising a couple of questions. What is frontal brain atrophe? Why wouldn't a hospital be a good place for sick people?

uu_mom June 5 2008, 15:45:40 UTC

Sorry my response is late - we had a storm & our internet service went out.

Were you unable to read the NY Times article? Apparently my message was posted on the community twice, but I can't delete either since both got a comment. Any way, on to the answer:

Frontal brain atrophy (I spelled it wrong the first time) means my brain is shrinking, which is normal, but not this much at my age. Alzheimer's is characterized by brain atrophy, but in a different part of the brain. Mine is one they call "early onset" but the only symptom that they have found so far was on the MRI - I have no apparent dementia. The news article talked about dementia. If/when I get dementia from this disease, I may lose the ability to understand sarcasm. I thought it would be appropriate to post that here since this community is based on an article that was full of sarcastic wit (or was it satire), so I think that makes the situation "ironic" (founder of this community possibly losing ability to understand it ( ... )