It lists both what I considered irony, and his "use of words to express something other than their literal meaning."
Yeah, I checked too. And me too. So we're good, since I don't consider m-w.com to be random jackasses.
And watch, he's going to follow his referrer logs back here and we can all have a nice argument about it.
Wait, that's not irony. Is it?
Exactly! I thought most of the examples he cited as definitively
not
ironic to be excellent examples of what I understood to be irony-- to wit, a type of particularly perverse result. His definition appears to be "sarcasm."
It is ironic that his entirely sarcastic post mistakes sarcasm for irony, maybe.
Are you being sarcastic?
No,
I'm not being
sarcastic.
Why ever would you think
I'm being sarcastic?
Also he thinks linguistic change takes hundreds of years.
bon bon's being all ironic....
Also he thinks linguistic change takes hundreds of years.
OMGWTF? I'm going to google his ass and then blog about him.
So tomorrow's my court date. I've never been to court before. I'm already all nervous. Should I dress up? Should I always say "your honon" - like, even if I'm just answering a question, should I say, "Yes, your honor"?
I imagine I should suppress my urge to say to the judge, "Woah, I thought all you dudes wore those funky wigs!", huh?
tommy, totally call him "honon."
What's it for, Tommyrot, if you don't mind saying. Is this traffic court? I wouldn't worry too much in that case.