it's an irony, a paradox, a misnomer!!
Sunday, May 7, 2006 by yish
paradox:
"A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. "
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
i always had this intitutive explanation of paradox but could never explain in words wat's a paradox. so here it it. paradox.
a list of paradoxes from wikipedia.
i like this one: A man says that he is lying. Is what he says true or false? (liar paradox)
irony:
"Irony is best known as a figure of speech (more precisely called verbal irony) in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. It can also be considered a twist of fate where an eventual event relates back to a particular quote. All the different senses of irony, however, revolve around the notion of incongruity, or a gap between our understanding and what actually happens. "
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
a term we always use in lit. haha.
misnomer:
A misnomer is the wrong name or term for something; a misleading name, often idiomatic"
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer
shop n save is a misnomer, which makes it so ironic, but i guess never a paradox. gah.
"A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. "
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
i always had this intitutive explanation of paradox but could never explain in words wat's a paradox. so here it it. paradox.
a list of paradoxes from wikipedia.
i like this one: A man says that he is lying. Is what he says true or false? (liar paradox)
irony:
"Irony is best known as a figure of speech (more precisely called verbal irony) in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. It can also be considered a twist of fate where an eventual event relates back to a particular quote. All the different senses of irony, however, revolve around the notion of incongruity, or a gap between our understanding and what actually happens. "
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
a term we always use in lit. haha.
misnomer:
A misnomer is the wrong name or term for something; a misleading name, often idiomatic"
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer
shop n save is a misnomer, which makes it so ironic, but i guess never a paradox. gah.