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Originally Posted by skinmaan
You can argue whether or not the above meets your definition of ironic, but clearly reading about the Marches in March meets this criteria.
Now what is truly ironic is attempting to use the method of Socratic irony ("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") to expose what you may have perceived as my ignorance of the use of the word "irony."  |
I honestly thought you may have been alluding to dramatic irony, in that we knew that there was a hidden meaning to releasing that book in March, but maybe it was nominally hidden from the general announcement, but it would have been a stretch....
As for the "new" meaning of irony, I hold that changes in meaning that are rooted in nothing but a misuse of a word due to ignorance and laziness and that bring nothing of value to the language or culture, and in fact dilute meaning and introduce needless ambiguity, should be actively resisted!
To arms, grammar police!
