# The irony is strong...

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**Created:** [February 1, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-irony-is-strong/23910 "2007-02-01T11:54:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-irony-is-strong/23910/15 "2007-02-01T14:05:24Z")

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> [@BikerFry](#):
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> Main Entry: iro·ny  
> Pronunciation: \ˈī-rə-nē also ˈī(-ə)r-nē\   
> Function: noun  
> Inflected Form(s): plural -nies  
> Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirōnia, from eirōn dissembler  
> Date: 1502  
> 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 irony  
> 2 a: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b: a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c: an ironic expression or utterance  
> 3 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 incongruity b: 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

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