What is Irony?
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You want to say something and you express that something with words, that would normally mean the opposite of that something. Let’s take an example;
You want your friend to stop singing, because he has a terrible voice. Instead of saying “please stop singing!” You say “yeah, please keep singing, you have a wonderful voice!” And hope he get’s it. If not, you can use body language to strengthen the dramatic effect, so as to make it really obvious that you mean that he should stop singing.
In this example we use the sarcasm definition of irony. Nowadays irony can also mean “opposition of meaning and action”
“Stop writing long explanations in ELI5” would be ironic to writr, because I am indeed writing long explanations here but mean to stop doing thst by further extending the length of my explanation… that’s ironic.
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