[Foundation-l] Wikinews - not so much a state of the wiki

[Marc Riddell]

> on 12/4/07 6:27 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton at gmail.com wrote:

> No, factual. In my experience, Americans have great difficulty
> recognising sarcasm (in general, of course). It's just a cultural
> thing. I have great difficultly understanding baseball and American
> football metaphors, while most Americans seem to be able to use them
> fluently - it's much the same thing.
> 

Not really, Thomas. Metaphors are grasped cognitively; while sarcasm relies
more on the emotions.

Marc