Comments on: Is it actually ironic? 3 TED-Ed Lessons on irony

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:32:08 +0000

Well no, they are not “children’s cartoons” because they were not directed towards children.

By: unknown

unknown — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:49:09 +0000

cheese

By: Mike Sutton

Mike Sutton — Wed, 18 May 2016 12:55:56 +0000

I wonder, what is the most ironic thing of all time?

What about the “Spinach Popeye Iron Decimal Point Error Myth” (SPIDES)? To find it you can just Google it.

The myth was used inadvertently, by expert skepticks who credulously believed it to be veracious, because they failed to check its provenance, as a most popular example of the need to check the accuracy of data before presenting it in order to prevent the creation and dissemination of fallacies and myths.

I suppose this is classed as “situational irony”. However, now that you know about it, if you see someone using the myth as though it is veracious, is that not also a type of “dramatic irony”?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:57:48 +0000

I used irony and sarcasm for long time. I thought it was humour but I discovered that it could hurt and that was not what I wanted. I rely pay attention now when I use them.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:46:14 +0000

Teachers generally aren’t friends with the children, when I was in school teachers would use sarcasm to publicly demean children and their ideas. I don’t think that’s appropriate behaviour from any teacher.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:51:32 +0000

Now, that is a misused of the word “literally”

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:11:40 +0000

The problem is that expectations vary among different people, so you can’t universally say one thing is or isn’t ironic. It may be ironic to you but not to someone else because you had different expectations. Using the cake example, you may expect that a character in a sitcom carrying a precarious cake would inevitably drop it in a dramatic moment because you’ve watched enough sitcoms that feature similar scenes. So it may be ironic to you if the character doesn’t actually drop the cake. For even more irony, you could have another character conspire to have the cake dropped by giving it to the clumsiest character in the show and then that person ironically isn’t clumsy when carrying the cake, in direct contrast with the conspiring character’s expectation.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:20:11 +0000

I completely disagree that children don’t have the ability to understand irony and sarcasm. When my daughter was as young as two years old, she understood it when she heard it, found it funny, and used it herself… appropriately, I might add. However, I have a sister-in-law, who’s a few years older than I am, that can’t recognize it that easily. So, that leads me to believe it’s a personality/sense of humor thing and has nothing at all to do with how old someone is.

By: Kahli

Kahli — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:45:10 +0000

I think the second example in the situational irony video is not ironic, but it is agesist.

By: Chris Winston

Chris Winston — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 15:29:40 +0000

Sarcasm has it’s limits. I find it to be an excuse for some that don’t have an intelligent comment so throw out what THEY think is funny. It gets very old.

Then, there’s the good friend that you know LOVES you and NEVER wants to hurt you, especially with words.

Example: I have a garden that is in terrible shape due to neglect and wind and laziness on my part. My friend was in town and hadn’t seen our home before and wandered outside and came back from the “garden” area.

I said, “Oh, did you see the garden?” She replied “THRIVING!!!!!!!”

It was hilarious because it was true and it DOES look terrible.

Just my thoughts…..