Hi, Michael R. Brown, I think I have to differ with you on that particular use of the term "irony" (of which history has thrown up many uses, and as a budding literary critic, I have some professional horses in the game). The inconsistency you performed (or, at least, I saw as being performed) was of a particular kind: an inconsistency between word and deed. Irony, at its most basic level, is typically defined as "saying one thing and meaning another." What I saw happening was of the form "saying one thing and doing another." As sayings are particular kinds of doings, I don't think its a misuse to say that one's actions can be ironic, though the cases of these ironies are typically unintentional, and so more like tragic irony (also an old, established form).
Not to need to be too right about it, Matt > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:37:08 -0700 > Subject: Re: [MD] Straw Men and the Primacy of Trust > > Hi, Matt Kundert - > > I'll enjoy reading through your recommended writings in a bit. > > There's no irony whatsoever. Modern misuse of the term. You mean > inconsistency, and there's not: I'm, just as you said, from the outside, > coming in anew, and goggling a bit at what there is to see. > > > MRB > http://www.fuguewriter.com > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
