Actual Freedom – Catalogue

1. I am somewhat nonplussed that you would feel that there is ‘sarcasm’ in my very straightforward words ... allow me to provide a dictionary definition. (Richard, List B, No. 52, #sarcasm)

2. Indeed it is not sarcasm ... I am entirely sincere. I like my fellow human beings and wish only the best for them ... each and every one. (Richard, List C, No. 3b, #sarcasm)

3. It is very obvious that sarcasm is a subtle form of abuse – verbal violence – and to be sarcastic is to obtain amusement at another’s expense. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 12h, #sarcasm)

4. As the ‘above snip’ is not characterised by or involving a bitter or wounding expression or remark and/or a taunt, especially one ironically worded or involving the use of or the faculty of using such remarks, and/or a language consisting of such remarks and/or bitterly cutting or ironic, I rather fail to see why you would want me to do so. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 53e, #sarcasm)

5. If you are meaning the word in its ‘mockery, ridicule, derision, scorn, wryness, sarcasm’ synonymic meaning (Oxford Dictionary) this may be an apt moment to point out that such is designed to make the recipient feel the effects of ridicule – humility via humiliation – as in the repentance engendered by the remorse of feeling rueful. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 44g, #sarcasm)

6. Of course, that egoic-driven ‘the genitor’ (and ‘o genitor’ and ‘Mr. Genitor’ and so on) propaganda continued unabated, despite my follow-up clarificatory post to Claudiu on that very topic (Richard, List D, Claudiu, 19 February 2013), because there is no stopping purblind egoists once their feeling-fuelled minds fixate on what they puerilely imagine is cutting-down-to-size sarcasm. (Richard, List D, No. 4a, #sarcasm)

7. Besides which, the word itself is the well-known figurative form of the common phrase ‘a dig in the ribs’, a.k.a. ‘a poke in the ribs’, and thus synonymous with ‘gibe’ or ‘jibe’ and suchlike words. (Richard, List D, No. 4a, #sarcasm)

8. Besides which, the word itself is the well-known figurative form of the common phrase ‘a dig in the ribs’, a.k.a. ‘a poke in the ribs’, and thus synonymous with ‘gibe’ or ‘jibe’ and suchlike words. (Richard, List D, No. 49, #dig)