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slappyjenkins · 02-01-2014, 12:39 PM

I said we should NOT attack each other like a pack of wolves and that's what everyone does on this site. I thought that was what I was going for?

Irony (from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneía), meaning "dissimulation, feigned ignorance"[1]), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between what the expectations of a situation are and what is really the case,

The American Heritage Dictionary's secondary meaning for irony: "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs"

On this aspect, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has also:
A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things. (In French ironie du sort.)[8]

Thank you for your input. I see a lot of people on here like to correct other people. I am not sure what it is about this site that breeds or encourages this kind of person, but a lot is starting to make sense.

EDIT: OH, it's even in your own response....
3: a) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result; an event or result marked by such incongruity

So, I'm not really sure what you were 'just throwing out there'?

02-01-2014, 12:39 PM	#40 (permalink)
slappyjenkins Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 214	I said we should NOT attack each other like a pack of wolves and that's what everyone does on this site. I thought that was what I was going for? Irony (from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneía), meaning "dissimulation, feigned ignorance"[1]), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between what the expectations of a situation are and what is really the case, The American Heritage Dictionary's secondary meaning for irony: "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs" On this aspect, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has also: A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things. (In French ironie du sort.)[8] Thank you for your input. I see a lot of people on here like to correct other people. I am not sure what it is about this site that breeds or encourages this kind of person, but a lot is starting to make sense. EDIT: OH, it's even in your own response.... 3: a) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result; an event or result marked by such incongruity So, I'm not really sure what you were 'just throwing out there'? __________________ I was once told...True intimacy is finding out what the other person wants and needs and if it's within your power giving it to them.