Using sarcasm to determine dementia

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2428/sarcasm-useful-detecting-dementia

Interesting concept.

dar512;513865 wrote:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2428/sarcasm-useful-detecting-dementia

Interesting concept.

This could be a great tool for the Cellar... if you know what I mean.

Yeah, sure, you can use sarcasm to detect dementia! That's a great idea.

Well we know my MIL doesn't have Alzheimers, but now she'll think she's getting flowers...

I'll have to try this at work.

I'm pretty sure it's true. There's a lot of humor that's lost on momWolf these days.

I think I had to explain the last couple GEICO commercials to her.

An interesting study, and in comso?

wolf;513957 wrote:

I think I had to explain the last couple GEICO commercials to her.

Yeah, well, count me with mom Wolf as far as Geico goes.


If I ever stop dripping sarcasm from practically every sentence, my family and cow-orkers will probably call 911.

SteveDallas;513977 wrote:

If I ever stop dripping sarcasm from practically every sentence, my family and cow-orkers will probably call 911.

That's why I love ya, SD.

SteveDallas;513977 wrote:

Yeah, well, count me with mom Wolf as far as Geico goes.


If I ever stop dripping sarcasm from practically every sentence, my family and cow-orkers will probably call 911.

Heh...me too.

toronokaze wrote:

An interesting study, and in comso?

That would be Cosmos Magazine, not Cosmopolitan. :)

Sarcasm is my primary form of communication.

Selene is now actively getting angry when I use it.

Does this mean that she's coming down with dementia?

How about using dementia to determine sarcasm? Anyone?

Any takers? Who are you again? A piker? ;)

How about using determinism to be demented about sarcasm?

I think I have dementia.

I don't get sarcasm most of the time.

Elspode;514299 wrote:

Sarcasm is my primary form of communication.

When you are no longer able to understand your own jokes, then you'll know you're demented.

Selene is now actively getting angry when I use it.

Does this mean that she's coming down with dementia?

This is another medical condition, well known in women, called defessus vestri somnium.

Aliantha;514454 wrote:

I think I have dementia.

I don't get sarcasm most of the time.

Could be you're just blonde.

Nope...not even fake blonde anymore. Natural born brunette.

It's a cultural thing for me. We didn't use sarcastic humour in my family when I was growing up and sarcasm was viewed as rudeness, so when someone's cracking a joke using sarcasm, I generally percieve it to be rude.

I guess that explains why I don't get the jokes you lot make most of the time. I had no idea they were supposed to be funny.

Anecdotal evidence to be sure, but whenever I've met someone who doesn't get sarcasm and ask where they're from it is usually the midwest or Wisconsin or Minnesota. They seem to be the most sincere people I've met. And terribly nice.

I'm from the midwest and we were served sarcasm three meals a day.

Me too. Don't look at me like I'm not sarcastic. :eyebrow:

you're one of the least sarcastic people I know. or was it you're one of the most demented? anyway i think we can all agree that sarcasm and dementedness have an inverse relationship.

If the relationship is truly an inverse one, then I guess I'm not sarcastic at all!

Shawnee? Sarcastic? Never...

Me either. :)

Yeah, I think the premise is flawed. :lol:

Actually, children with Asperger's don't "get" sarcasm either. My personality is loaded with it and my son was taking me literally. It's taken years of "that was sarcastic" for him to finally understand what it was. Now he understands it, and he tries to be sarcastic, but fails miserably.

Aspy's are very interesting. I know a number of people who have Aspy kids and they run the gammet of personalities. I know they are a lot of work.