Irony

At 04:19 PM 10/23/98 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:

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Dear Friend,

I don't know the English term but in my native language what is described is call 'chaining letters', supposed to be a method to become rich very rapidly. That was illegal, though.

In my language we have something called humor, which some taxonomize with terms like irony, sarcasm, wit, etc.