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I 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"
by dfc 13y ago
I 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.