There’s something satisfying about spotting irony in the wild. Whether it’s a sign that says one thing but shows another or a ...

"Two negatives produce a positive," declared the middle school math teacher, "But two positives never produce a negative." A ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

When Marilyn Walker was a little girl, her grandmother introduced her to sarcasm through genteel put-downs that sounded sweet but weren’t. She’s been intrigued by figurative language ever since. “I ...

A team of students participating in Cornell University’s Tech Challenge program has developed a machine learning application that attempts to break the final frontier in language ...

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