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> I hadn’t heard update for so long I had stopped checking their website. I hope I'm not the only one who appreciates the irony of this sentence.
by grondilu 9y ago
> I hadn’t heard update for so long I had stopped checking their website.
I hope I'm not the only one who appreciates the irony of this sentence.
- Nomentatus 9y agoPoignantly appropriate, perhaps piquant - but not ironic (contrary or inappropriate in a poignant way.) "As you might logically expect" is not what we usually want to point to with the word "ironic" which derives from the taste of blood in the mouth (iron), I believe. Irony is always poignant, but what is poignant is not always ironic - it can be poignant and suitable(appropriate/consistent). Poignant and surprising and nonetheless consistent with what one might expect; not contrary to expectations. Of course, 100 years from now I'll probably be wrong, the word irony is so thoroughly misused, that by then the dictionary will have dropped the word poignant entirely, substituted "irony" and we'll need a whole new phrase to say what one word, "irony", means now.
- grondilu 9y agoExpressing impatience regarding a project that is supposed to inspire long-term thinking is pretty much ironic in my book.
- Nomentatus 9y agoYou think it would be unusual to find a ten-thousand year project a bit slow and even frustratingly so? No, you don't. Follow the logic.
- abruzzi 9y agoObviously the idea was that I checked periodically and found no updates for several years so my checking tapered off and stopped. However I do appreciate the irony of the website updates being a metaphor for the clock itself.