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i think a middle-school english teacher broke my brain by saying you can't define irony except by example and so any subsidiary definition that depends on a definition of irony is also going to import it; that said women on dating sites regularly refer to themselves as sarcastic
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Probably middle-school English teachers Now that was sarcasm wrapped around non-sarcastic irony… a pointer to your earlier use of the denotative phrase I think irony is confusing mainly where allusion and undeclared quotations are involved. That creates pointers/recursions.