JonsJava@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agojoining the fediverse to bitch about reddit is the same as going on a date, and spending the whole night talking about your exmessage-squaremessage-square355fedilinkarrow-up14.41Karrow-down1284file-text
arrow-up14.12Karrow-down1message-squarejoining the fediverse to bitch about reddit is the same as going on a date, and spending the whole night talking about your exJonsJava@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square355fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJonsJava@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down13·edit-21 year agoPointing out that people are saying something too much isn’t irony. “The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.” - irony
minus-squareMJKee9@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s not the"pointing out" that makes it ironic… It’s the popularity of the post running counter with your underlying argument in the past that makes it’s ironic.
I see the irony here 😂
Pointing out that people are saying something too much isn’t irony.
“The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.” - irony
It’s not the"pointing out" that makes it ironic… It’s the popularity of the post running counter with your underlying argument in the past that makes it’s ironic.