Irony is such a hard word to define. Can the use of bluntness be a form of irony? A point of rhetoric that is beyond me. i think it was an expression of my [finally] accepting a fact of life. and a definition of what NTIA meant that I had not fully understood before. This was a direct statement to the CCWG from NTIA. Not from within a broader speech, nor in public statements and testimony. Maybe they had made this direct a statement to the CCWG before, but I never perceived one in the manner I perceived this one. So just accepting the facts before me and deciding to move on in a manner that completes this process with the many positives it brings. avri On 26-Nov-15 10:08, Nigel Roberts wrote:
I did not read Avri's first sentence as ironic. Was it? I'm shocked.
As an aside, I've discovered that irony (and its less cultured cousin, sarcasm) can lead to severe misunderstandings in an international context**
Nigel.
(**I find the milder forms that we Brits use *all* the time in ordinary business communication are regularly misinterpreted and taken literally by native speakers of American English so I try to avoid it as best I can. Sometimes I can't help myself though.)
On 26-Nov-15 07:33, parminder wrote:
times have we heard the same outrage, and then a familar routine follows - so well described by the first, ironical, sentence of Avri's email.
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