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title: "Irony"
description: "Merriam-Webster defines irony as: 1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from anothe..."
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published: "2012-03-25T10:49:16+00:00"
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# Irony

> Merriam-Webster defines irony as: 1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from anothe...

Merriam-Webster defines irony as:

1: 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

2: a) 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

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 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

A simple way of putting it is that irony usually signals a difference between the appearance of things and reality. I loved this example: "Is it ironic that I posted a video about how boring and useless Facebook is on Facebook?" Yes, ironic, definitely, unless you truly made a boring and useless video and put it on Facebook to hide it. If you expected your video to be seen and enjoyed (or to server a purpose) then, yes, that is irony all the way. =))

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