IRONY
Irony deficiencies.
Here is a definition from the excellent Oxford English Reference Dictionary ( available from all good bookshops.)
IRONY n. 1. an expression of meaning, often humorous or sarcastic, by the use of language of a different or opposite tendency. 2. an ill-timed or perverse arrival of an event or circumstance that is in itself desirable.
[L. ironia, Gk. eironeia , simulated ignorance.]
Ironic Examples :
• It always starts to rain just as you finish watering the garden.
• There is only one ' Monopolies Commission '.
• This.
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The perception of irony, is, of course, highly subjective. Really Magazine therefore leaves it entirely to our readers to decide on the irony content of our publication - there may be traces in individual items - unfortunately we cannot guarantee its absence.
