Judy, your previous post indicates that you are keeping track of posts you
think are clueless and you're ranking them! I admit it makes me wonder about
your mental situation.
On Thursday, December 26, 2013 4:19 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com"
<authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I don't know whether anyone's keeping track, Share. Would it make you anxious
if they were? After all, you'd only be competing with yourself.
<< Is someone keeping track?! That seems pretty clueless to me! >>
On Thursday, December 26, 2013 4:12 PM, "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> wrote:
This is probably the funniest (i.e., most clueless) post Share has ever made.
<< from yahoo answers: Irony is probably one of the great misused words of our
generation. In
its pure form it requires the speaker to say one thing and mean another, and
also requires at least one person present to believe that the
speaker means what he says and at least one who knows otherwise.
"Irony is a form of utterance that postulates a double audience,
consisting of one party that hearing shall hear and shall not
understand, and another party that, when more is meant than meets the
ear, is aware both of that more and of the outsiders' incomprehension."
-- Fowler's Modern English Usage.
Parody is imitation of the written or spoken words of another for the purpose
of ridicule.
Satire is a humorous artistic expression (such as a novel or essay)
intended to attack folly, stupidity or vice. It can employ a number of
types of humor, including sarcasm, irony and wit. >>
On Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:48 PM, Richard J. Williams <punditster@...>
wrote:
On 12/26/2013 11:14 AM, authfriend@... wrote:
Robin and I called that exchange our "irony duel" in private.
>>Oh, so now it's "irony" instead of a "parody"?
>>
>>parody:
>>
>>a. A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic
style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See
Synonyms at caricature.
>>b. The genre of literature comprising such works.
>>2. Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a
travesty: The trial was a parody of justice.
>>
>>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parody
>>
