Art is thin to scoff at people by means of words is worth a lot. Open rudeness and roughness do to nobody credit. But the ability to besiege the interlocutor without use of a mat or abuse is appreciated in modern society worth its weight in gold.
Wit in all manifestations
The similar skill has both positive, and negative sides. Venomous remarks, ennobling the author over the others, help opponents to embarrass themselves most. But insensitive, aggressive people can use physical force to the sharp fellow who especially got them for this reason it is much more of such last on the Internet, than in real life.
There are two subspecies such an ostrosloviya. The first is an irony. It, as a rule, mild, derisive, positive. The irony is used for emphasis of attention on themselves. The ironic person often becomes soul of the company. The second subspecies — sarcasm. It is heavy artillery. The sarcasm, in fact, represents a little veiled, but a spiteful and clever sneer which shows to people around that the person to whom it is addressed is not too clever. Such sneer always demands public because to sparkle with wit before not too clever interlocutor to whom the sarcasm, rather silly is directed. People who resort to sarcasm always work for appreciative audience.
Sarcasm and modern society
In modern society the verbal hairpins are most often necessary to veil obscene reaction which is considered bad manners. For example, subtle sarcastic remarks will be anyway more appropriate than natural reaction to the requirement of the chief because of some formality to redo work in which you were engaged several months. Rather thin hairpin which will allow you to exhaust can be and will cause irritation in the administration, but, at least, will not leave you without work.
It is remarkable that the word "sarcasm" came from the Greek verb meaning "I tear meat". In fact, the sarcasm represents the most effective verbal weapon. Sarcastic remarks are divided into two types — obvious and veiled, clear only to the author. Effectively to use sarcasm, it is worth estimating truly mental capacities of a potential object of a sneer, if he or she are rather clever and witty, you can become an object of much more cruel sneer and lose a duel. Modern psychologists consider that the tendency to sarcasm speaks about healthy mind. People often use sarcastic remarks unconsciously, in the defensive purposes. Professional humorists seldom use this type of a sneer as it seldom causes fun and joy, they prefer irony which is safer. Sarcasm — favorite method of writers-satirists. Actually, it became widespread even at the time of development of Ancient Greek and ancient Roman philosophy. Many philosophers actively used sarcasm to deride governors and large officials. In Renaissance the sarcasm was shown also in literature, and even in painting.