Timeline for Is it irony when you answer a question as though you've misunderstood it?
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| Sep 30, 2015 at 8:30 | comment | added | Marv Mills | Sorry but I cannot agree with you. | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 8:19 | comment | added | user140086 | @MarvMills Good point. If he was promised to get a room (probably with extra charge) facing a beautiful beach, and found it was not, it can be both sarcasm. and irony as he got the opposite of what he expected. In that sense, No. 2 and 3 also can be viewed as sarcasm. | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 8:17 | comment | added | Marv Mills | See I don't agree that irony is just "getting the opposite of what you expected". That view is what drives the go-to subject when irony is discussed- the Alanis Morrisette song 'Ironic'. It think irony is when you get the opposite of what you expected AND there is either an overwhelming reason why it what you expected should have been delivered OR you played an unwitting active part in getting the unintended outcome... But I admit its a slippery subject... | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 8:01 | comment | added | Marv Mills | Surely the first one is just sarcasm, not irony- It would be ironic if "He" was a property developer who built the brick wall obscuring a previous beautiful view... | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 7:09 | history | edited | user140086 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 30, 2015 at 5:54 | history | answered | user140086 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |