Situational irony: The opposite of what you think - Christopher Warner
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Leaps and bounds separate that which is ironic and that which many people simply say is ironic. Christopher Warner wants to set the record straight: Something is ironic if and only if it is the exact opposite of what you would expect.
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'Isn't it ironic?' You hear it all the time - and, most of the time, actually no, it isn't. Hypocritical, cynical, lazy, coincidental, more likely. But what is irony? Zoe Williams meticulously, sincerely, and unironically hunts it down. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2003/jun/28/weekend7.weekend2
Irony may be defined as the conflict of two meanings. http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaGenText/tei/DicHist2.xml;chunk.id=dv2-70
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