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Irony

 
 
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 02:11 am
steissd

If someone doesn't know a language, how can he know about the irony in that country?
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steissd
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 02:13 am
Well, this may be a probable explanation; but English was not a mother tongue for both Israeli engineer and his Japanese clients.
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margo
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 03:18 am
'taint only Murricans wot don't understand irony.....
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 05:28 am
Who else doesn't?


(heeeeheeeeeheeeeeheeheheheheeheheheeh)
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hiama
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 05:54 am
wabbits, incompetent steel workers
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:06 am
I do so understand irony! megaton harrumph!
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steissd
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:16 am
Ways to express irony vary in different cultures. Things that can sound ironical to (for example) an Irishman, may be offensive to (for example) Japanese, and sound like complete nonsense for a Zulu (once more, example; no racism is implied!!!).
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:18 am
gibberish? we got a gibber desert here - dinna know it SPOKE!
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steissd
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:19 am
Maybe it does, at night, when you sleep or go on-line Laughing
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steissd
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:20 am
By all means, the dubious term is replaced by me on your request.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:25 am
request? I was being IRONIC!!!
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steissd
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:26 am
So was I...
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steissd
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:27 am
But the term was replaced since I was not sure in its spelling; English is not my mother tongue.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 06:28 am
Shocked

Got me!

Laughing
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hiama
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 07:12 am
Steissd has a good point ( or does he ?)

Deb-sowwy of course you do
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 20 Feb, 2003 07:32 am
nemmind - I NEEDED a good harrumph!


\l/
#-<;=
/l\
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hiama
 
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Reply Fri 21 Feb, 2003 02:10 am
Irony here we do find , of a humorous and sarcastic kind :-

"He was a gentil harlot and a kinde;

A bettre felawe sholde men noght finde.

He wolde suffre, for a quart of wyn

A good felawe to [liven as a swyn]

A twelf-month, and excuse him atte fulle:

Ful prively a finch eek coude he pulle."


That old Geoff eh ?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 21 Feb, 2003 02:42 am
Ah - they don't maken hem like unto thatte onny morre!
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hiama
 
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Reply Fri 21 Feb, 2003 03:44 am
forsooth aint that the trooth
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 21 Feb, 2003 05:20 am
Well, if 'tis forsooth, then 'TIS the truth, isn't it?
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