Iron Knee
So I was out with a friend of mine last night…Miss L…a wonderfully cute and funny lawyer…who is book smart (at times)…but has been known to lack street smarts…in her very own naïve 33-Going-on-13 type way. Examples include asking whether I think one can “feel the lean” when they are visiting the Eiffel Tower…and correcting me when I mistakenly thought a mutual acquaintance was going to Seattle for business…rather than “Washington” as Miss L patiently explained to me.
Fortunately the woman is charming and funny and would do anything for her friends…and the above-described moments make her all the more endearing somehow. The latest phase she is going through though is the use…overuse…misuse…of the word “irony.” Everything in her life is “ironic” right now. And ironically it’s not. It’s coincidental at times. And sometimes just weird. But not ironic. Never ironic. And I am finding myself becoming mesmerized by the word…and wanting to use it all the time too…in situations where it’s not required.
So I have designed this helpful little tool to keep myself from using - and abusing - same:
Main Entry: iro·ny
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
1 : The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
Ex. “Isn’t it ironic that I’ve told him I hate him – only to disguise the fact that I am completely in love with him?”
2 : Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs:
Ex. “I searched profile after profile on the on-line dating service and none of them appealed to me, because ironically I was searching for the exact qualities of the man who I seem to have just lost.”
Main Entry: co·in·ci·dence
Pronunciation: kO-'in(t)-s&-d&n(t)s, -s&-"den(t)s
Function: noun
1 : the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection
Ex. “Last night I dreamt over and over that I had lost my yoga Mat, and refused to use another one since the one I had was the only one I wanted, and coincidentally when I woke up, it was still lost and I couldn’t find it anywhere.”
Ironically, I’m not sure the above-noted examples are ironic or coincidental. But they are a reality at present. Hope to recover my mat at some point soon because class is tonight, and life isn’t much fun without it…
posted by Ginger @ 11:43 AM
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