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Irony

Journal by The Mighty Buzzard

Hipsters and millennials, please learn what irony means. Most of the ways you use it, they're just you being a pretentious little shit not irony. This is irony (and also funny as a motherfucker).

 

Reply to: according to webster

    (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:15PM (#817302)

    irony (noun) [merriam-webster.com]:

    1a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
    b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony
    c : an ironic expression or utterance

    2a(1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity
    b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
    — called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

    3 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning
    — called also Socratic irony

    Now that is out of the way. Let the trollfest commence!

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