Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> The longest English word found 
> >>> in the entire result set was the word "rare".
> > 
> >> Ooohhhh the irony! ;-)
> > 
> >   I have sometimes noticed that people use the word "irony" in situations
> > where it doesn't match the definition of the word. I think this is one
> > such case.
> Could that be because many of us are native English speakers and
> therefore understand the subtleties of the Eng. Lang. more intuitively?
> BTW Not meant offensively

  I'm not the only one who thinks that the word "irony" is misused.
For example, see entry number 3 here:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15664_9-words-that-dont-mean-what-you-think.html

  A good example of irony is something like this: The boy who appeared in
the infamous "star wars kid" video got so upset by all the unflattering
media publicity, that his family pressed charges against the people who
posted the video on the internet. The irony is that the lawsuit attracted
even *more* media attention than the video itself.

  The example in this thread is more akin to the bad example of "irony"
given at that webpage: "She always said she wanted to marry a dentist!
And then she married Bob, who is a dentist! Isn't that ironic?"

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                                                          - Warp

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