On 10/11/06, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com <
charles.r.matthews(a)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.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com