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Originally Posted by elcid
It's not Ironic, unless you went to the Allanis Morisette School of Irony
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Actually, definition #2 fits perfectly without Alanis' definition. her song should have been called 'isn't it a bummer?' Although the guy who was afraid to fly...that was ironic.
Main Entry: iro·ny
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
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