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Completely true, of course, but the original poster's use of irony wins more style points than yours. ;) Irony is judged by how artfully it approaches the line
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
Completely true, of course, but the original poster's use of irony wins more style points than yours. ;)
Irony is judged by how artfully it approaches the line of apparent total sincerity without going over. Your response is clearly ironic. But it's possible to imagine, for a few seconds during the first reading, that the OP is being serious. Only after you think about what he just said do you start laughing.
- sho 17y agoMan, are you californian? I have noticed that what californians call irony and my own definition are completely different. What you're talking about I'd maybe call deadpanning - sorry, not really up on the various types of comedy. Irony would be more like a guy who had long publicly scorned version control, mocking all who used it, losing all of his code because of some problem which would have been easily avoided by the use of version control. Guh, reminds me of what my friend used to do. He'd be acting all excited and say "Did you hear? Nine Inch Nails is having a concert here next month!" and I'd be like "Wow, cool, I want to go!" and then he'd crack up laughing and say "I can't believe you thought I was serious". edit: he didn't deserve to be downvoted .. wtf. Maybe downvoting should cost the downvoter a point too, like on Stack Overflow. Would be an interesting experiment.