does it get on your nerves when ppl constantly misuse the word "ironic"?

Question

ppl always seem to say something is ironic, when it is actually just misfortunate, and i heard some one say steve irwin dying was ironic, which it isnt at all, if you play with fire and you get burned thats not ironic, does this get on your nerves as well, or maybe a different word that ppl constantly butcher

Answer 1

Totally,
Espcecially when people don't understand the difference between irony and sarcasm.
At least YOU are educated :-)

Answer 2

Irony is a trope such that the speaker meaning is the opposite of the proposition expressed.

Steve Irwin's death is ironic.
He was a crocodile hunter, but he was killed by a manta unknown to cause harm to humans. He was recognized for his invincibility. Yes, it's tragic that he died, but it's also ironic when invincible people perish, when supermodels trip, or the queen farts.

If you don't have a robust sense of semiotics then no event is ever ironic, because it isn't written down intentionally by an author. But that defies our usage anyway, events can be ironic.

"Def. 5 an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. Def. 6 the incongruity of this."

The unexpected event belies the truth of the conventional description such that we are compelled to reinterpret the commonsensical parsing of an individual, an event, a character type; and laugh at the transgression, even though there is no author but US, as a linguistic community, writing the book collectively in our minds.

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Anything outrageous or unacceptable is also obviously ridiculous, something SUBJECTABLE to ridicule because it falls outside the ordinary.

This entire thread is ironic ---- one would expect that you all know what you are talking about so disdainfully.

Answer 3

Wow, being a foreigner, I though "ironic" is just slightly different in English because it turns out that people misuse it all the time. Well after your frustrated question I know that it isn't.

Another word is probably "ridiculous" when it really should be "outrageus" or "unacceptible"

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I get annoyed by people using "your" when they mean "you're" (as the contracted form of "you are"), but then I've got a million of them so I'll stop now. It's always irritating when people misuse words, but I've been guilty of it myself. What's hard is knowing when it's okay to correct someone and when it's best to just let it go.

Answer 6

Yes it does get on my nerves... It also gets on my nerves when people misuse the terms, "needless to say..." and "Newton's Law"... i want to tell them to just stop talking.

Answer 7

Yes. Isn't that ironic?

Answer 8

How is this a philosphy question? Go ask it in Words and Wordplay.

Answer 9

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