As you can tell, Conan’s initial self-deprecating jokes allow Andy to jump in with witty sarcasm about how Conan would make a pretty girl.Instead of taking offense, he plays along, then takes that joke and runs it into a story about an old Three Stooges skit where they dress up as ...
The trend caught on quickly and has grown beyond TikTok to other social media platforms. It is a form of an “inside joke” among users who are in on the trend. So if you see people using chair emojis instead of laughter emojis, now you know why. You can even use it yourself to sh...
Essentially, this second method seeks to reveal: What different meanings can ‘anthropomorphism’ be used to imply (by virtue of its “synonyms”)? 3.1 Data and pre-processing The data were provided by JSTOR’s Data for Research program and consists of all documents in JSTOR’s collection ...
Even though you switched from Catholicism you still follow the same God so it's really not a far stretch to make. If you'd turned to the Muslim or some other belief, you would have a point there. But being the majority of people simply follow their parents faith, it tends to make th...
sarcasm, referring to the perceived origin of the virus to the developer of the online teaching platform DingTalk that enables/forces learners to attend classes even though they are in the lockdown period COVID-19 Wu and Fitzgerald (2021, p. 4). This is a perfect case where bat soup is ...
A. Because she has nowhere to go. B. Because she’s trying to be a helpful co-worker. C. Because she owes her co-workers some favors. D. Because she’d like to earn more money. 【4】What does the author imply by saying the underlined sentence “We’re not robots”? A. Flight ...
In today’s world, marketable Treasury securities are a very reasonable investment for the fixed income portion of a portfolio. They pay more interest than bank accounts, and are backed by the full faith and credit of the Federal government (no sarcasm, please!). The interest is not subject...
If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world tomorrow, where would you go (cost or responsibilities are no object)? Right here, right now. This is my choice. What would you like to do more of in the coming year? Find beginner’s mind more often. ...
Phew good thing text through a forum is so easy to tell especially when it wasn't humorous from the beginning. I understood his humor without the [/sarcasm] header. But that was because of his choice of vocabulary. You made a good point, conversation in forums and text commun...
No, not necessarily. True, our emissions of CO2 and its atmospheric concentration are rising, but anthropogenic CO2 represents only 3% of the total free CO2 in the Earth-atmosphere system. But in logic – it cannot be repeated often enough – mere correlation does not necessary imply causation...