You mean expressions like: "Trump's profound capacity for humility"?
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Even without irony it has become almost impossible to write about anything without offending someone or being misinterpreted.
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This same rule applies to most classroom teaching, as I've learned the hard way.
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About 90% of the hate mail I have ever received was related to someone not understand irony in my writing....the remainder of that hate mail was probably very well deserved.
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You can solve the problem by adding emojis to the formal way of writing.
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What do you mean?
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Well, this is timely. Currently discussing the use of figurative language in expository writing with grade 9 students.
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Your ed's advice not to use irony because many readers won't get it. True! A client whose bk I was editing quoted 3 passages (from different authors) in which meaning was ironic. I had to sweat to convince him that in every case the author meant the OPPOSITE of what was written.
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Why it was hard for my client to detect irony: I knew the man's culture. It's one in which people say what they mean, not what they do NOT mean. The culture has rich humor, but it tends to be literal, straight-talking. Irony disrupts the literal.
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Irony works best when hearer shares speaker's rhetorical understanding. If I said to such a hearer, who did NOT remember my birthday, "Thanks for remembering my birthday", they wouldn't reply, "You're welcome"--unless they were being ironic too, or nasty--tempting me to Unfriend.
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“Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated?” And who knew it took a stable genius to figure this out for the rest of us?
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How ironic
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Do writers for golf magazines use 1-irony, 2-more_irony, 3-decidedly_ferrous, 4-compass_budging, or full-on 5-iron_so_pure_there_is_no_-y about it? (Never played golf in my life; it shows?)
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but sarcasm is still available I hope?
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A wise prof gave me the same advice when I started teaching. It has served me well.
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Ironic
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How ironic and worth subverting Keats for: Irony is truth, truth irony, —that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Same goes for teaching at a University. Only the smartest students “get it”!
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