ELI5: what is irony? : r explainlikeimfive - Reddit Irony is when we expect the opposite of what actually happens For example, when a kid is pushing in the door labeled “pull” at the school for gifted children, it’s ironic Sarcasm is verbal irony, when someone says the opposite of what they mean The only thing ironic about Alanis Morrisette’s song “Ironic” is that the vast majority of examples in the song are NOT ironic
For all the ironic moments! - Reddit ***Irony*** is a figure of speech defining an outcome of events which occur in a way that is contrary to what was, or might have been expected It can often be funny, but is also characterized in tragic events We tag flair onto posts to help identify particular types of irony These tags are not set in stone, please comment your opinion if you disagree with the sub-category in which a post is
Whats the deal with iron and irony? : r etymology - Reddit Iron is a metal Irony is, well, not Normally appending -y to a word makes it an adjective The weather is rainy, my mood is shitty, etc But we don't say 'that sword is irony' to say that it's made of iron or anything like that Not the best example, but you get the idea So what happened?
ELI5: What is the difference between sincerity, irony, post . . . - Reddit Irony is making fun of it and pointing the absurdity of it Post irony is returning from irony back to being sincere Meta irony is being self-aware of the irony of it all Confused? You should be I view it as different degrees of self-awareness, at the end of which the recipient isn't able to tell if this is ironic or not
ELI5: What is Irony? : r explainlikeimfive - Reddit Irony is when something happens that is the opposite of what is expected It can be funny, but it can also be tragic Sarcasm, where the real meaning is the opposite of the surface meaning, can be a type of verbal irony, but it’s not the only type of verbal irony In dramatic irony the audience knows what to expect, but the characters on stage do not Thus the audience knows Juliet took a
How Necessary Is Irony Mod Manager? : r Stellaris - Reddit Irony can't do these for you Irony CAN show you conflicts between mods, and help you to resolve them, but your mods should already be telling you their load order when it matters, and in order to properly manually resolve them, you're going to have to understand the mess of overwriting rules and some of how to write a mod in the first place
Irony Mod Conflict Solver : r Stellaris - Reddit Mario (Irony author) was getting so many questions about the interface that I felt obliged to help him a bit by making it Any unresolved conflicts will be dealt with by the load order
hood irony central for real niggas only - Reddit Hood Irony and HoodIronyCentral has never stood by this content being posted on our communities Originally, we wanted to come together to laugh at hood memes, fair and square
Does anyone know this essay David Foster Wallace is referencing . . . There's this great quote by David Foster Wallace about irony that ends with this line: "Irony’s gone from liberating to enslaving There’s some great essay somewhere that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who’s come to love his cage " Does anyone know what essay he is referencing?