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irony (FIGURATIVE SPEECH)
noun [U]
a means of expression which suggests a different, usually humorous or angry, meaning
source: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
No, I think the word I used was appropriate. Read again the whole "conversation" and stop posting your useless comments. Thanks.
No thanks. The way you used it wasn't right in that sense, the word you would have wanted was sarcasm.
Ok, so lets start here.
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lies Eragon is best of all time
This made me lol.
haha yeah since you probably preffered Harry potter

No harry potter is over rated.
We can see that in your opinion neither Eragon nor Harry Potter are best books of all time as I posted in my post, but this is not the point, lets go further
Quote (Veilside @ Thu, Jan 3 2008, 10:49pm)
While eragon is a piece of literary genius.
Now we can see statement quite difficult to understand. Especially that this sentence has an error. How a book may be a litereary genius? Or maybe a hero of a book, boy named Eragon is a literary genius? I would say that author of this statement havent read all posts in the thread and didnt know you dont think Eragon is a great book and still put it in bad words.
Quote (Conri @ Thu, Jan 3 2008, 11:20pm)
I never said eragon was literary genius.
You also didnt know what this guy wanted to say. Anyway, I would say he didnt actually think what he wrote, so in fact, in his opinion Eragon isnt literary genius (whatever it means :S). There are no emotikons, so I may only guess, what were this guy feelings (probably this was +1, but yeah, whatever), but from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary defnition you can see, that irony may be both humorous or angry so its quite possible that it matches the situation (only neutral is left, which in fact doesnt also match 'sarcasm' statement). I hope you see, that I didnt make a mistake. Probably word sarcasm would be also good, but it is up to me which word I use in my post, right? Thanks for attention and gl in finding your +1s.