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Where is the irony? Or are we eschewing Oxford and Webster's definition and using Alanis Morrisette's?
by dfc 13y ago
Where is the irony? Or are we eschewing Oxford and Webster's definition and using Alanis Morrisette's?
- edent 13y agoI'm talking trash about BB while using BB for testing. Granted, it's not the most scintillating use of irony - but it fits the British definition quite adequately. Of course, the ironic thing about Alanis Morrisette's song is that it contains no irony. Which makes it paradoxically ironic.
- dfc 13y agoI never realized that the British definition of irony included acting in a manner contrary to one's stated preferences. I have heard the "paradoxically ironic" bit from other people before and it never made any sense to me. A lack of irony is not the same thing as the opposite of irony. I have also never been able to understand the difference between "ironic" and "paradoxically ironic."
- edent 13y agoSee, for example, http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/the-19-most-ironic-facts-of-all-time http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/the-19-most-ironic-fact...
- dfc 13y agoWe are discussing the Queen's English and you refer to a silly slideshow on Buzzfeed? I think we should pretend this discussion never happened.