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Offline IceCold

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ENGLISH LESSON
« on: November 13, 2005, 01:44:47 PM »
OK guys, since I know you slept through 54.3% of the English classes you ever attended, here is a quick not and painless lesson on DRAMATIC IRONY through a simple anecdote...


I was in high school. One day, my friend and I were walking back from playing street hockey. Suddenly, he looked down and saw a dirt-covered object on the road. He picked it up and scratched some of the crusted earth off vigourously, revealing a loon. Therefore, we deduced that it could only be a dollar coin. My friend thought it was his lucky day, because he owed Friend #2 exactly a dollar and he figured that this would be perfect to pay him back with.

So, the next day, we went to school, and the friend tried his luck. Friend #2 obviously refused to accept it, using some choice words. All was not lost, however. I, being the smart one that I was, had the idea of putting it in the vending machine and pressing the change button to get quarters out of it, which could be used to repay Friend #2.

We went to the nearest Coca Cola TM vending machine, and we put the coin in. Upon pressing the change button, we received....

8 QUARTERS!!

For those of you who can't do the math, that's $2. The coin must have been so close to the weight of a $2 coin, it fooled the vending machine...

And that, my friends, that is IRONY...
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RE:ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2005, 01:48:21 PM »
Oh yeah, and saracsm is a form of verbal irony..
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2005, 02:04:54 PM »
Also, you use adverbs when describing adverjectives, verbs, and other adverbs.   People need to remember that "He was hurt real bad" is horribly incorrect and should be changed to "He was hurt really badly.  "Badly" describes " [was] hurt" which is a verb, and "really" describes "badly" which is an adverb.

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serious discussion lol.  it'd suck if I were incorrect.
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RE:ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2005, 02:09:27 PM »
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Also, you use adverbs when describing adverjectives, verbs, and other adverbs.   People need to remember that "Fatty" is horribly incorrect and should be changed to "Large man  "Badly" describes " KN's need for cheese" which is a verb, and "really" describes "badly" which is an adverb.

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serious discussion lol.  it'd suck if I were incorrect.





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RE:ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2005, 02:24:09 PM »
That isn't dramatic irony at all
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2005, 02:27:19 PM »
Badly cannot describe my need for cheese- that is incorrect grammar.  However, I do agree with what you meant to say; I do not enjoy most variations of cheese.  I find it completely unappetizing.
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2005, 02:29:55 PM »
Well, we will see about that.

Yea...we uh, will see!

Don't worry about it! you will see!


Aww shi..
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2005, 02:37:11 PM »
Sometimes my bladder fills up with urine.
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2005, 04:01:19 PM »
what does it fill up with the rest of the time?
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RE:ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2005, 08:08:42 PM »
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Oh yeah, and saracsm is a form of verbal irony..


That wasn't verbal irony at all, unless you made up the story. . .  
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RE:ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2005, 09:36:12 PM »
Eh? No, I was just adding to the lesson on irony - that statement was not related to the anectode - the story is an example of dramatic irony.
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2005, 06:03:55 AM »
Like 1000 spoons when all you need is a knife?
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2005, 08:41:43 AM »
...that isn't dramatic irony.  Dramatic irony happens when someone (usually the audience/reader) knows something that a character doesn't.  Your story is a mild example of situational irony, becuase he turned down something worth MORE than a dollar.

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RE:ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2005, 08:51:43 AM »
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2005, 09:35:55 AM »
and wrong you can say bad instead of badly..badly is an overcorrection

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html#feeling
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2005, 09:51:00 AM »
I think I'm better than you.

There's something different about those examples that still makes me right, if anyone can find what it is he or she wins.  
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2005, 05:18:06 PM »
Adding ly to a word makes a word an adverb, but if two words are already adverbs then there is no need to even add ly. You can say both I hurt real bad, or i hurt really badly. In the former example real and bad are both adverbs decribing hurt. In the latter example "really" is an adjective describing the adverb "badly" which desctribes the verb hurt.

another example.. The hurt was real
                             The hurt was bad.

he was hurt really bad.
he was hurt real bad.
he was hurt really badly.
he was hurt real badly.

all of those examples are correct..its just how you look at it. Also when listing adverbs..they dont have to agree. This isn't spanish.

saying bad without the ly was not standard it is a variation.

thats why you can say

it felt really good
or
it felt real good

but it would be weird to say

it felt really goodly
perhaps in an archaic dialect, but not one we speak today
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RE:ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2005, 05:35:35 PM »
Inertia is a property of matter...
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2005, 09:01:27 AM »
is it situational irony that this thread is posted in the Funhouse?
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2005, 09:56:48 AM »
Yes.

and no.

AT THE SAME TIME.

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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #20 on: November 16, 2005, 04:19:37 PM »
Benevolent is a word I think.
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RE: ENGLISH LESSON
« Reply #21 on: December 18, 2005, 12:02:49 AM »
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