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A Sense of Irony.
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- Author(s): Herbert, Wray
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Scientific American Mind; Oct/Nov2008, Vol. 19 Issue 5, p80-81, 2p, 2 Color Photographs
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The article discusses the children's usage of ironic languages. It mentions that some psychologists argues that these were the languages of failed expectations, it is a fact of the human condition that things do not always turned out as planned and language need to capture and highlight that ironic sense of life. Studies found that they required no laborious cognitive crunching and they were processed the insincerity as rapidly as they processed the basic meaning of the words.
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