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The Irony Font
Nov. 20th, 2010 03:22 pmThe Irony Font
It's many years now since an exasperated student of mine demanded how she was meant to guess that a sentence in the piece of prose we were reading was meant ironically, and suggested that authors should use a special "irony font" when saying things they didn't mean. It came back to my mind lately because someone mentioned how easy it is to have this mode of writing misunderstood online.
( long witter continues by way of music-hall, Euripides, Swift, Defoe, Will Hay, Johnny Speight and other suspects )
It's many years now since an exasperated student of mine demanded how she was meant to guess that a sentence in the piece of prose we were reading was meant ironically, and suggested that authors should use a special "irony font" when saying things they didn't mean. It came back to my mind lately because someone mentioned how easy it is to have this mode of writing misunderstood online.
( long witter continues by way of music-hall, Euripides, Swift, Defoe, Will Hay, Johnny Speight and other suspects )
