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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sarcasm isn’t necessarily biting. For example “nice weather we’re having” in the rain.[/quote]

No, by very definition, sarcasm is biting. Your example isn’t sarcasm, it’s a form of irony. Not clever irony at all, but that is not sarcasm. Sarcasm has to be biting to be sarcasm. So, without examples from OP, we really don’t know what kind of statements from children OP is actually referring to. True sarcasm from small children is rude. Honestly, sarcasm is almost always rude. That doesn’t make it not funny, of course.[/quote]

Merriam Webster and Oxford agree with you.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/sarcasm[/quote]

Fair enough (NP here).  But whether it is "rude" still depends entirely on who or what it is directed at.  Sarcasm about oneself = self-deprecation. Sarcasm about a shared clearly bad experience = bonding. Sarcasm about the general world = (probably) just negativity. Sarcasm about the other person (or someone else) = Likely rude (and mean to boot).

So I just don't agree that sarcasm is necessarily rude; I think the problem is that kids are rarely good at it, so it tends to be in the last two categories (of the "Duh!" category) and thus the kid either come off as negative or mean. But I think that sarcasm in the first categories can be a real mood-lightener, where you get to either laugh at yourself or relieve tension about a bad or annoying situation...[/quote]

According to both of these definitions, it is directed at a person in a negative way. So yes its rude, or its not actually sarcasm, its irony or something else. [/quote]

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