This conversation always gives me headaches because Irony and coincidence usally go hand in hand. The biggest debate I had with a person was the question of if the song "Ironic" was in fact Ironic. I claimed that most of the incidence were coincedences and werent really ironic however:
Ironic defined by Merriam webster-
1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony2 a: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaningb: a usually humorous or sardonic literary ****or form characterized by ironyc: an ironic expression or utterance3 a (1): incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2): an event or result marked by such incongruityb: incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play —called also dramatic irony tragic irony
thats what got me, because you wouldnt expect rain to fall on your wedding day(line from the song) and it is Ironic that the one time a man goes on the plane in years it crashes.
however this is just the song and doesnt cover the whole topic...yes I have heard it used incorrectlly and I had cases were ironic could be used but very loosly. I try to not use the word to offten unless its for a joke or a good laugh because I believe the term was only used to describe a situation in a play or story were the audience has an idea of whats going to happen but then something else happens. In fact I dont think the word was intended to be used outside of writing :?
owwww....my head
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