All 6 Uses of
irony
in
Do You Speak American?
- It is ironic that many Americans who had found prestige in sounding more English began dropping it when admiration for Britain was at its absolute zenith, just after the joint Allied victor;/ in World War II.
Chpt 3ironic = when what happens is very different than what might be expected; or when things are together that seem like they don't belong together
- Then came President Bush, a scion of the East Coast establishment, ironically using a folksy Texas version of talkin' country as part of his political persona and winning in states far beyond the South.
Chpt 4 *ironically = in a manner indicating that what happened was very different than what might have been expected
- Ironically, given today's linguistic anxieties, in the same editorial the Times suggested that, if a second language was needed at all, Spanish would be more useful for business.†
Chpt 5
- Baldwin had some ironic observations on how white Americans considered it hip or hep to pick up black expressions: Now, I do not know what white Americans would sound like if there had never been any black people in the United States, but they would not sound the way they sound.†
Chpt 6
- Ironically, the school was named after Martin Luther King, Jr. Annie Blair, one of the mothers, had moved north from Tennessee.†
Chpt 6
- Ironic flashes of culture were granted these girls, who never seemed to read or know anything but about clothes in the world of contempo-casual; hence the ultimate put-down, She's a full-on Monet, looks good from a distance but a mess close up.†
Chpt 7