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You could even say that I was employing irony by calling his humorless comment “droll.” I don’t mean “you,” per se, because you find it hard to know if the auth
by phmqk76 3y ago
You could even say that I was employing irony by calling his humorless comment “droll.” I don’t mean “you,” per se, because you find it hard to know if the author was using hyperbole or was conveying that this was, in fact, the most horrible experience of his life.
Do you know what “pedantic” means? And do you think maybe you’re being… that?
- gregjor 3y agoYes, thanks for the English lessons, and for draining what little humor one might find in the exchange.
- drewcoo 3y agoGo sleep it off, sock puppet of the original "droll"-sayer account. That's not what droll means. That's not what irony means. But you have pedantic nailed. As well as un-funny "sarcasm", the word you were probably struggling after . . .