bryan rasmussen wrote: >>>>E. g. [in Java there is] no operator overloading, but "+" >>>>concatenation of strings. What if you'd like to implement your own >>>>string-derived class? Ah, never mind. Operator overloading is >>>>bad(tm) ;) <= Irony, definitely >>> >>>Definitely? That one strikes me more as sarcasm. >> > > Well irony originally started out as a very specific concept of the > Ancient Greek drama, this is what we nowadays refer to as Dramatic > Irony but it is the original irony. Irony then became a literary > concept for plot elements similar to Dramatic irony in books, or a > weaker type of the Dramatic irony found in the plays of Shakespeare. > People then noticed that life was at times ironic in the literary > manner. Nowadays the use of the word irony has degenerated to by > pretty much synonymous with sarcasm. > ... in America. It's well-known among Brits that Americans don't understand irony. They can be pretty oblique when it come to sarcasms too, for that matter.
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