"George Herbert" wrote
There's a difference?
Irony: :-;
Sarcasm: No, of course, there is _no difference_ at all. If you are at the bottom of a pond. And talking only to fellow tadpoles. In semaphore. With your tail. And then your tail falls off, leaving you without a viable means of communication. Then and only then does the distinction between sarcasm and irony become a distinction without a difference. I have been teaching this to frog-faced pupils like you for forty years and you still haven't got the point.
Charles
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On 10/11/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
"George Herbert" wrote
There's a difference?
Irony: :-;
Sarcasm: No, of course, there is _no difference_ at all. If you are at the bottom of a pond. And talking only to fellow tadpoles. In semaphore. With your tail. And then your tail falls off, leaving you without a viable means of communication. Then and only then does the distinction between sarcasm and irony become a distinction without a difference. I have been teaching this to frog-faced pupils like you for forty years and you still haven't got the point.
Charles
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Usually the replies to that straight line don't come with nearly that visual and compelling a response. Bravo, Charles.