Dontcha Think?
I've never been so great at detecting irony. In fact, I was on board with Alanis Morrisette right up until some of my English major friends alerted me to her imprecise usage. (I just thought it was a catchy tune.)
It's a real nit-picky term, "irony". For something to qualify as ironic, it needs to be more than just coincidental. At least two factors need to line-up in such a way that...oh well.
I'm pretty sure we all witnessed one such event last night at the Golden Globes.
Not two minutes into Peter Morgan's acceptance speech, in which the British screenwriter spoke eloquently about the function of social protest (alluding to the Iraq war) he was made to "wrap it up" with plenty of time left. Now I'm pretty sure that a speech about social protest being cut short on Martin Luther King Day does, in fact, qualify as irony.
posted by Peter @ 6:32 AM
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A friend pointed it out on his website, in pre-blog days, that the Morrisette song is ironic in that none of it is actually ironic. I'm not certain she actually is in on the joke.
Topical songwriter Tom Lehrer has said that irony died the day that Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
"the Morrisette song is ironic in that none of it is actually ironic."--I'm stealing this, and you can't stop me. Too funny.
Yes, Peter. I agree. That was ironic. How sad.
I love that true observation about the Morrisette song being ironic in that it was not ironic. that is f'ing awesome. Dontcha think? A little tooooo ironic. yeah, I really do think.
Lisa
The SAT also uses a loose definition of "ironic." If anything a writer says is just a little bit funny -- the bar for "funny" on the SAT is end-of-the-limbo-game low -- then the author's tone is very likely "ironic."
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