"ironically" again

[Wilson Gray]

Ron writes:

"[I]f one is setting out to make a movie about dangerous creatures,
one does not really expect to be killed [by a dangerous creature], so
the sense of irony in which things turn out to be the opposite of what
one might expect also works here."

Works for me.

-Wilson

On 9/4/06, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/4/06 12:18:41 PM, wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM writes:
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> > =A0 And Larry, if "ironically" has been dragooned into all-purpose adverbi=
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> > transitionality, the questions remain:
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> > =A0 Why "ironically" ?=A0 And what does it mean in such contexts ?
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> > =A0 JL
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> See NOAD2: "used to denote a paradoxical, unexpected, or coincidental=20
> sitation." It seems "coincidental" that the man was filming a story about da=
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> sea critters and a sea critter accidentally killed him--not to mention=20
> unexpected. And if PARADOXICAL is taken in the sense of "seemingly absurd,"=20=
> one might=20
> see the death by sting ray an the context of the filming as "paradoxical" as=
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> well. For that matter, if one is setting out to make a movie about dangerous=
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> creatures, one does not really expect to be killed, so the sense of irony in=
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> which things turn out to be the opposite of what one might expect also works=
> =20
> here.
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-Wilson
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

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