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[xiphias]

I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but, if I want to express to a friend the idea that the argument that they are making is going to be too hard for someone else to follow, because the examples and analogies which they are using are obscure, and therefore, to understand the argument, you need to have a whole lot of cultural context in common, and you just can't assume that people HAVE that level of cultural context in common, I just say that all in one word: "Darmok."

I find this vaguely ironic.

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[mattblum.livejournal.com]

Sounds more than vaguely ironic to me.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, the fact that it works reduces the "irony" factor for me. To me, "irony" is about failure resulting directly from a course of action designed to bring about success, so something successful can't really be ironic.

Um. Approximately. I've never really been able to verbalize precisly what "irony" means as I understand it.