Can’t Ever Tell if I’m The Last Person or First Person on Earth to Get This
There’s a cute way to unify verbal irony, dramatic irony, and “isn’t it ironic” irony: A thing’s ironic from perspective s if it involves a person with perspective s’ that is less well informed than s who for that reason would describe the thing in a way that is opposite of how a person with perspective s describes it. In verbal irony s is the speaker and s’ is the simulated speaker. In dramatic irony, s is the audience and s’ a character. In “isn’t it ironic” irony s’ is the person during the event and s that person in its aftermath.
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