An open list of 24 words by ecbrenner.
- dry wit has 1 comment
- irony appears on 75 other lists and has 7 comments
- sarcasm appears on 40 other lists and has 3 comments
- black humor appears on 1 other list
- blue humor has 2 comments
- gallows humor appears on 2 other lists
- parody appears on 33 other lists and has 12 comments
- Burlesque has 1 comment
- satire appears on 32 other lists and has 1 comment
- repartee appears on 45 other lists and has 1 comment
- wit appears on 41 other lists and has 8 comments
- deadpan appears on 20 other lists and has 5 comments
- slapstick appears on 18 other lists and has 7 comments
- ill appears on 18 other lists and has 3 comments
- leg-pull
- scatological appears on 13 other lists
- dry appears on 31 other lists and has 2 comments
- pun appears on 17 other lists and has 5 comments
- sick appears on 25 other lists and has 1 comment
- invective appears on 102 other lists and has 1 comment
- cynicism appears on 27 other lists and has 2 comments
- the sardonic
- good appears on 47 other lists and has 21 comments
- bad appears on 39 other lists and has 2 comments
ecbrenner Ruzuzu, that's great! I'd never seen it before. Now I'll mark it for future reference. I wonder who would be considered "the respectable" in this day and age? Jun 29, 2010
ruzuzu Are you familiar with the "humour, wit, satire, sarcasm, invective, irony, cynicism, the sardonic" table in H.W. Fowler's Modern English Usage? It's hilarious--he tells us that the audience for cynicism is "The respectable," while the motive or aim of the sardonic is "Self-relief." Jun 29, 2010