09-01-2005, 09:53 AM
Hehehe -- I can't resist.
Irony is the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. So the title and matter of both New Orleans is sinking or New Orleans is Beat isn't ironic at all. It's coincidence.
I guess we can blame Alanis Morissette's blatant misuse of the word ironic.
It's like a traffic jam/When you're already late
He won the lottery/And died the next day
I guess popular usage is shifting to mean something more along the lines of ironies of fate, or something.
Until then, however, that the Hip have a song called NOIS is coincidence! :lol:
Irony is the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. So the title and matter of both New Orleans is sinking or New Orleans is Beat isn't ironic at all. It's coincidence.
I guess we can blame Alanis Morissette's blatant misuse of the word ironic.
It's like a traffic jam/When you're already late
He won the lottery/And died the next day
I guess popular usage is shifting to mean something more along the lines of ironies of fate, or something.
Until then, however, that the Hip have a song called NOIS is coincidence! :lol: