Thursday, December 17, 2009

Irony (2)

If I say, "I can never have too much strawberry ice cream," I can mean that just about any amount of strawberry ice cream is too much. I said one thing and meant the opposite. In a sense, all irony is like this. With irony, you can't say X and mean something ever so slightly different. You can only say "X" and mean "not X".

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