Pete's Log: irony
Entry #1014, (Random Crap)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
- 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
- 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
- a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : 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
I find this ironic: www.destruction.com
But I find it even more ironic that I'm still not sure I really understand what irony truly is.