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A joke is a phrase or a paragraph with a humorous twist. It can be in many different forms, such as a question or short story. To achieve this end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous.
A practical joke or prank differs from a spoken one in that the major component of the humour is physical rather than verbal (for example placing salt in the sugar bowl).
Purpose
Jokes are typically for the entertainment of friends and onlookers. The desired response is generally laughter; when this d...
Sarcasm is “a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt.” Though irony and understatement is usually the immediate context, most authorities sharply distinguish sarcasm from irony; however, others argue that sarcasm may or often does involve irony or employs ambivalence. Sarcasm has been suggested as a possible bullying action in some circumstances.
Origin of the term
It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to The Shepheardes Calender: October:
The word comes from the late Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmόs) taken from the word σαρκάζειν meaning ...
Der Holiday Park ist ein Freizeitpark in Haßloch (Rheinland-Pfalz).
Allgemeines
Der Park stach in der Vergangenheit durch Fahrgeschäfte hervor, welche oftmals Deutschland- oder gar Europapremieren waren. Dazu zählten der erste Freifallturm („Free Fall Tower“) und der erste Rapid River Ride Deutschlands. Bekannteste Attraktion des Parks dürfte, vor allem durch das überregionale Medien-Echo, die Achterbahn Expedition GeForce sein, welche seit 2001 das Aushängeschild des Parks ist.
Die jährlich wechselnde Wasserski-Show auf dem Holiday-Park-See ist die größte ihrer Art in Europa; sie find...
The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Indigenous Australian languages, containing 160 of 228 identified languages. The name "Pama–Nyungan" is derived from the names of two widely separated groups, the Pama languages from the Northeast, and the Nyungan languages from the Southwest. The terms pama and nyunga are expressions meaning "man" in the languages from their respective regions.
The other language families indigenous to the continent of Australia are occasionally referred to, by exclusion, as Non-Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not a proper taxonomic te...
An apical consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the apex of the tongue (i.e. the tip of the tongue). This contrasts with laminal consonants, which are produced by creating an obstruction with the blade of the tongue (which is just behind the apex).
This is not a very common distinction, and typically applied only to fricatives and affricates. Thus many varieties of the English language have either apical or laminal pairs of [t]/[d]. However, some varieties of Arabic, including Hadhrami Arabic, realizes [t] as laminal but [d] as apical.
The ...
A laminal consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, which is the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue on the top. This contrasts with apical consonants, which are produced by creating an obstruction with the tongue apex (tongue tip) only. This distinction applies only to coronal consonants, which use the front of the tongue.
Laminal vs. apical is not a very common contrast within a language. Where such a contrast occurs, it is typically phonemic with fricatives and affricates rather than stops, although some native lan...
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