Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Guest Post: Why is sarcasm so difficult to detect in texts and emails?

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Sara Peters , Newberry College This sentence begins the best article you will ever read. Chances are you thought that last statement mig...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Stating the obvious in a single newspaper headline

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Charlottesville's Daily Progress wins the prize for stating the obvious in its banner headline on Sunday, October 12. There, above th...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

This Is Not Ironic -- Is It?

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Am I wrong to think it is entirely appropriate that the Department of Homeland Security is going to be headquartered in an insane asylum ? ...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Bad Prediction

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I was sorting through some long-neglected books on shelves in my house when I came across Northern Virginia Challenges: The 1990s and Beyond...
Monday, February 09, 2009

Life Imitating Art

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Anybody who has seen The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (on Broadway or on tour ) will be familiar with this plot element, brought t...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The Most Persuasive Case Against Gay Marriage

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Someone at 236.com uncovered an old educational film that makes the most persuasive case against gay marriage that I have so far encounter...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Is This Ironic? Or Isn't It?

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Isn't sports supposed to make you more healthy? Well, yes. Playing sports is a healthy activity. Watching sports? Not so much. So rep...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Doubletake Headline of the Week

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Lion Appointed To Detroit Zoological Society's Board...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

Fall Fashions

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Maybe I'm going out on a limb here, but the camp value of this new line of McCain-Palin campaign memorabilia might just make these item...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Constitutional Fact Check

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Perhaps it is understandable, if not entirely excusable, when a historian makes a factual mistake in something he writes, when the mistake d...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Doing It Later

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Yesterday's " Sunday Source " section of the Washington Post has what appears to be an informative article about procrastinat...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

If Romeo and Juliet Had Lived ...

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One of the great stories in Western literature is that of Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers whose family feud led, ultimately, to their ...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Cooking with Larry Craig

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I learned about this recipe from an article by Dan Catalano in C-VILLE Weekly , a local arts and entertainment (and news and politics) tabl...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

Academic Irony

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What a tangled web of deception has come to light at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marilee Jones, a prominent crusader against...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Death of Saddam

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If one needs proof that the Americans are not in control in Iraq, it's in the fact that Saddam Hussein did not sit on death row for 20 ...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Predicting the Past Perfect

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I received this email today from the conservative movement's direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie , dated November 13 at "4:19:45 A.M....
Monday, October 16, 2006

Is This Irony or Just Odd?

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An article in Monday's Washington Post about "homophily" -- "a somewhat grand word to describe the idea that birds of a ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Provenance

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It started last Friday, when actor Bradley Whitford ( Josh Lyman on The West Wing and now Danny Tripp on the new NBC series, Studio 60 on ...
Friday, August 04, 2006

Not Any More....

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This headline appeared on the obituary page of today's Washington Post : Margaret Anne Cargill, 85; Anonymous Philanthropist She must no...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Isn't It Ironic?

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Is it just me, or did anyone else catch the slight irony in the report that the creator of Charlie the Tuna died by drowning recently?