Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Example of irony

I can't even spell committment.

On reflection, perhaps that's more of a Freudian illiteracy than something ironic. Alanis, can you help me out here?

3 comments:

teigan said...

Commitment.

Freudian illiteracy. I get that all the time.

Irony, as we all know from Reality Bites, is when the literal meaning is the exact opposite of the intended meaning.

Man, I love that movie. /deadpan

wortwut said...

care to neatly summarise a clear distinction between irony and sarcasm much? I've always wondered.

Anonymous said...

Technically (not that anyone really knows this, or cares), irony is literary whilst sarcasm is verbal.