I actually think that you have to be reasonably intelligent to come up with a quick sarcastic comment.
I belive that personal insults are the lowest form of wit.
It takes hardly any intelligence at all to call someone Ginger Nut or fatso or some similar type of comment.
What do you think is the lowest form of wit?
2006-10-13 09:44:26 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I think there is much confusion between what is sarcastic and what is sardonic. If you look at any good dictionary, you will find that they are not synonyms until there secondary meanings. Many confuse the two; so when one is being sardonic( morbidly jocular) he is taken as being sarcastic(bitterly wounding) and the difference is beyond subtle.
2006-10-13 10:33:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is any low form of wit because it still requires the use of your brain. It just depends on how well you do it.
I think some insults are quite good (like yo' mamma jokes) but they are usually are pretty low because people are always using the same ones over and over.
Sarcasm can be very intelligent. If you have ever watched the TV show "House" you can't say that House's sarcasm is idiotic. However, people often use little kid sarcasm, saying "you are SO smart" and nothing else, which requires almost no thought.
2006-10-13 10:02:42 · answer #2 · answered by tamE 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Wit is after all the a talent, the ability to show the ability to use words humourously or to make unexpected or clever associations. Sarcasm does all that.
I agree that derogatory comments are the lowest form of wit, because people who make insulting comments always seem to think that they are witty and clever when they are blatantly not.
2006-10-13 09:56:50 · answer #3 · answered by lianhua 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the saying is that "puns are the lowest form of wit."
Sarcasm really isn't a form of wit. Sarcasm isn't meant to be funny. Its meant to be aggressive, or to put something in a certain light by the way it is expressed. So, sarcasm isn't a low form of wit. I don't think it is even a form of wit.
2006-10-13 10:27:54 · answer #4 · answered by Roger Peters 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you. Look at British humor. A lot of their humor is based on dry sarcasm. I love it! I've watched British comedy with some folks and they don't get the jokes at all. It flies right over their heads. It takes intelligence to come up with a sarcastic comment and it takes intelligence to understand that it was sarcastic!
2006-10-13 12:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by luvmuzik 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vulgar abuse is the lowest form of wit, although I doubt (unlike you) that it can be termed wit at all.
Sarcasm does require intelligence and two of its greatest proponents, Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parkin, used it to great effect, but with scant regard for its effect on the victim.
2006-10-13 09:56:01 · answer #6 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The lowest form of humour is slapstick, since it requires almost no intelligence at all to, say, pull someones nose. It is the form of humour grasped by children first.
Personal insults can be highly imaginative and sophisticated, (see Shakespeare, for instance).
2006-10-13 10:01:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sarcasm is the said to be the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence!- personally I love sarcasm!!!!! when it is said ina jesting way you are quite right personally insulting someone is cruel - cruelty isn't funny only to pople you don't like-- see what i did there!!!
2006-10-13 09:53:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not always Sometimes sarcasm IS wit.
2016-03-28 07:57:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whenever anyone tells me that sarcarm is the lowest form of wit, I respond with "At least it's a form of wit!"
2006-10-13 09:58:01 · answer #10 · answered by alfie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋