I don’t think I’ve ever heard sarcasm used when irony is appropriate. Because “ironically” seems to be taking over (for Americans, not in Australia)

“That’s so sarcastic” referring to irony isn’t a thing. Or at least, I’ve neve heard it.

“the use of words that are the opposite of what you mean” bad Cambridge, bad! That’s sarcasm.

Could be my cultural context, and my bias because I constantly hear Americans misusing ‘ironic’.

Don’t use it differently without providing a replacement please and thank you!

Wikipedia gets it right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony “Irony is a juxtaposition of what, on the surface, appears to be the case with what is actually or expected to be the case”

My understanding, from how people use it here is that irony is a situation which is a contrast between the expected/intended and actual outcome.

It’s ironic when a fire station burns down

This definition is truly upsetting: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

Americans, no. Bad Americans.

This definition is correct (until we come up with a good substitute, FFS America): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

Glad Wikipedia agrees with me on this one haha We’ll at least the introductory definition.

Edit: to answer your question. I dunno. I just think this form of “ironic” just didn’t take off in Australia.

Mostly because we already have words for what Americans use it for. And don’t have words to replace irony.

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Oh interesting, I hadn’t noticed that!

The American use “ironically” is probably the only difference between our dialects that I’ll stand firm on.

My friends, we already have a use for the word, and it’s not this!

I’m all about linguistic innovation, but using “unironically” in place of “seriously” and “ironically” in place of “sarcastically”/”not seriously" is not happy times for me.

Unless you give me a new word for irony.

I quite like y’all, I use that all the time, not against Americanisms in general, just this one.

I feel upset, only because they’re even more car-centric than we are.

Agree with you on all of it, but the office ribbon I think is actually not bad design. Especially if you use alt shortcuts, you can get pretty quick at accessing a bunch of options via the keyboard.

The little stupid arrow to show more options notwithstanding.

Here’s a very entertaining video on how bad ribbons can be: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

-dun-

Recycling: waste vegans.

The Germans are probably upset with this comparison

What for a nonsense. Do these other countries not sort their waste or what? Do they not know about efficiency? Next thing you’re going to tell me they don’t sort their white, green and brown glass separately.

This is on you then. Providing finished documents in an editable format just feels wrong to me

Just lie. There is absolutely nothing unethical about lying about timeframes on your resume.

Looking for a job after being made redundant, but still in good standing with your former coworker or manager? Just say you still work there.

Otherwise they’ll have way more leverage when it comes to salary negotiation.

My friend did this when he got made redundant, landed a well paying job, after months of being unemployed.

You have no reason to have a gap on your resume because you’ll be unfairly punished for it.

Just lie. It’s 100% ethical.