From: Gene McAloon 

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:04:26 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>Bill Lucy wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>> TDNBW{at}barktopus.com says...
>>
>>>If you knew Ernest T, that is exactly what he is doing, throwing rocks
>>>in everyone's glass houses.
>>
>>
>> Ernest T., like irony, is dead.
>>
>
>I think in the US, irony starved to death....
>
>Adam

It is still alive, if not well. Writing in an ironic way is not too
difficult, but getting the reader to recognize it as irony is very
difficult. When even so many college graduates can't write a coherent
paragraph, how can you expect them
to recognize irony?

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