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IronicallyIronicallyPosted Aug 6, 2003 21:07 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: Ironically by ncm Parent article: Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com) According to American Heritage (4th Ed.) irony is (2a) "Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs". We might expect a result to follow from a prerequisite, but in this case, the stated prerequisite (more desktops) would follow from the stated result (open sourcing java). This reversal is, in fact, ironic. It only doesn't fit the top definition of irony, of course, wherein words are used to express a meaning different from or opposite to their literal meaning. But you certainly knew that. I am amused that the word "irony", whose primary definition is the use of words to express something different from what they literally mean, is used more often than other words to express something different from what it literally means. Of course, I suppose it might be expected.
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Ironically Posted Aug 6, 2003 22:13 UTC (Wed) by jonth (subscriber, #4008) [Link] Now there's a turn-up for the books: an American publication with a definition for irony! And we always thought they didn't know what irony was... ;-)J
Ironically Posted Aug 7, 2003 18:19 UTC (Thu) by jdthood (guest, #4157) [Link] > an American publication with a definition for irony!Ironic, eh?
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