I noticed a user earlier on the board today get use the term wrong... once again as many people do in everyday life. Now I want to make sure I myself, have been using irony correctly, so please tell me if the way I use it in the following statement is correct.
John likes creating medicine to save peoples lives. After many years, the actual act of creating this medicine, killed John. John's death is ironic.
Is that right?
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Most people who try to use irony tend to attempt verbal irony. Essentially that a phase has the opposite meaning of what it seems like it should have. When it comes to discussions on the internet, this is the most common kind of irony. A reasonable example would be this joke written by Isaac Asimov, paraphrased...
John walks into a bar and sees Mike drinking. John asks Mike how things are. Mike responds, "My wife just ran off with my best friend." John says to Mike, " But Mike, I'm your best friend." Mike replies, "Not anymore."
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What about if an outdoor wedding was planned, but then had to be moved at the last minute (like a day or 2 notice) to an indoor venue due to a forecast of severe storms, but then on the actual day, instead storms as forecasted, the weather was perfect?
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From: ImTheMacheteGuy | #011 What about if an outdoor wedding was planned, but then had to be moved at the last minute (like a day or 2 notice) to an indoor venue due to a forecast of severe storms, but then on the actual day, instead storms as forecasted, the weather was perfect?
While reading this all i could picture was the ruined wedding from the November Rain music video
1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
Great topic, by the way :)
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The problem with defining irony is that there are so many different types, and so many different interpretations of what those types mean, that everything becomes muddled. Even in this topic, there are plenty of definitions that don't quite hit the mark. Here's a correct one:
Irony is a situation or statement wherein the opposite effect of what was intended is produced.
So I'm not sure, for example, that firefighters failing to put out a fire at their HQ is a good example of irony.
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From: SlymDayspring | #019 How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever! And now, I'm going to kill you with it!
Irony Man.
Holy s***.
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Was the poster on the board me in the NCAA contest?
Also, Alanis Morisette has gone on record saying that the fact that none of the things in "Ironic" are ironic was deliberate. The whole thing was Ironic.
In creating a song about irony, she didn't mention anything ironic the whole time!
Oedipus is the classic case of irony, yeah. In trying to fight a prophesy, the prophesy is in fact fulfilled.
Another example from Pirates of the Caribbean: in killing Bloom's father as a way of avenging their curse, the pirates actually end up making the curse irreversible.
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Rain on a wedding day? We'd have to do a rain dance to end this drought, but I forgot how to do a rain dance. I'd do the cherokee memory jogging dance but I forgot that too...I know, the irony is thick. We could try the iriquois irony jig but only god can do that dance and it has to be raining
Also, Alanis Morisette has gone on record saying that the fact that none of the things in "Ironic" are ironic was deliberate. The whole thing was Ironic.
In creating a song about irony, she didn't mention anything ironic the whole time!
Conveniently, she said that after the song had already become famous and people had noticed it.
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nintendogirl1 posted... From: Vlado | #032 Conveniently, she said that after the song had already become famous and people had noticed it.
It was a chart hit the week it debuted. You wanted her to have a press conference about what the lyrics of her song meant before it was released?
Which is to say there was nothing ironic about her statements at the time.
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From: nintendogirl1 | #025 Also, Alanis Morisette has gone on record saying that the fact that none of the things in "Ironic" are ironic was deliberate. The whole thing was Ironic.