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I don't see what's ironic about it, honestly. What is it about a more secure system being used to hack a less secure system that violates any expectation? That's like saying it's ironic that the reliable, well-armored, heavily armed German Panzer III tanks beat the bejesus out of the legendarily crappy British A9s and A10s in World War II. Well, no, ...

It's definitely anti-jokes. Wikipedia's article on it is very helpful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor "Anti-humor is a type of indirect humor that involves the joke-teller delivering something which is deliberately not funny, or lacking in intrinsic meaning. The audience is expecting something humorous, and when this does not happen, the irony ...

The definition of irony can be so elusive. It may help to think of irony as the juxtaposition of two contradicting states, one which is obvious and one which is unexpected. Let's examine the two pieces of your example: Linux is the most secure OS. Linux is used to hack other operating systems. If we could state that the Linux development ...

Your college needs to phrase its questions better. You have given a totally acceptable example of what Nordquist ( http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/ironyterm.htm ) calls situational irony while they probably wanted an example of what he calls verbal irony (antiphrasis). He lists a third type of irony; I've misplaced the article I know I filed somewhere, ...

I'm familiar with the word being used in the phrase "That's a bit rich coming from you", here's a definition I found: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/That%27s+rich! That's (a bit) rich! something that you say when someone criticizes you to show that you do not think they are being fair because they are as bad as you. "I'm greedy? That's a ...

You seem resistant to the idea that situational irony itself is the most appropriate term for the concept. In fact, it has been recognized as a form of irony since the eighteenth century, and the term "situational irony" has been around for decades (here are two citations from 1960). There's nothing improper about it at all.

No, it's not an example of irony, which is The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. The words are used correctly, but it's facetious (verbosity, long-windedness, loquaciousness, etc.).

Not so much ironic as a parallel to a putative Freudian claim. Freud was known for interpreting dreams, often reading a sexual intent into seemingly innocuous objects. He is also often portrayed chomping on a cigar. However, allegedly he claimed "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." The alternative being to interpret a cigar as a phallic symbol. This is the ...

"Say hello to karma" means "Your past has caught you up" or "You have reached the point where you cannot escape facing up to your past actions or lack of actions". Dilbert is stating the obvious. If it wasn't Dilbert it would hardly be funny. Being Dilbert it must be funny - I just haven't stared at it long enough.

It is not dramatic irony, which relates solely to fictional, dramatic contexts. Your true story reflects situational irony, which is the irony of a situation whose outcome is contrary to what was expected.

I believe this is situational irony. Wikipedia says this “describes a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results in a certain situation,” and gives a couple of examples: When John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan, all of his shots initially missed the President; however, a bullet ricocheted off the bullet-proof ...

"As in" has always been used to provide a concrete example of a word. I would say that it has always had a slightly sarcastic or incredulous tone to it - it could be used to describe, say, a piece of art "its made of carrier bags - as in what you take your shopping home in". The use more recently as in the OP is just taking this one stage further - using an ...

It's not good irony. It's mildly ironic to survive long exposure to a dangerous environment only to die after short exposure in a purportedly safe one. The problem might be that neither the dangerousness of space nor the safety of the home (if that's where it happened) are the most prominent aspects of those places. You might pick place more noted for ...

Irony is the rhetorical device of exploiting a disparity between two distinct meanings in a single event or utterance. The LitCrit factory has produced an enormous body of writing on Irony, which is one of those Fundamental terms, like Metaphor and Ambiguity, but two broad sorts may be distinguished: ‘Rhetorical’ (or ‘classical’ or ‘conscious’ or ...

I went to this website to get a definition of irony, and will focus on this one: 2: a) the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning When I think of someone who is successful, my initial thoughts are a well-paying job, and a life of relative ease and comfort. Ditch digging is hardly the first thing ...

I would say it depends entirely on her state of mind when she makes this observation - and her state of mind is not clear from the excerpt given. If she truly believes in that moment that he is better off and she has failed, then it is not ironical. But if this view of things is one she is adopting in a literary way, knowing that it does not really reflect ...

I don't think you can derive very much about the content or tone of what is being referred to here as "verbal" (vs. the other apparently non-verbal?) forms of irony. However, the term alone - "verbal irony" - does connote a physical, more active representation of said ironic unit. This contrasts well with the idea of cosmic irony, for example = which is ...

I'm not sure where you got that list of "6 types of irony". I've never seen that particular list before, so to the best of my knowledge, it's not a commonly accepted set of types, but something that one particular writer made up to illustrate his point. If that's the case, it may well be useful as a general explanatory tool of the meaning of irony, but I ...

This website has a nice definition of verbal (or linguistic) irony: a duality of meaning... that language often carries a double message, a second often mocking or sardonic meaning running contrary to the first... Apparently, irony can have varying levels of subtlety and richness; some double meanings might be more opaque yet brilliant. No wonder ...

The things that are incorrectly ascribed to irony fall into a few categories. Some are coincidence: Ironically, I ended up in the same store as my mother. Sometimes it's just bad luck: I hate cats and ironically, my new girlfriend has seven. And a more extreme example is just tragedy: I was always afraid of getting cancer, then ...