irony impared

[Offroad]

Dear teachers and friends

Could you please share some light on this?

How does one become irony-impared? Is there any cure?

Thanks

 

[Allen165]

Dear teachers and friends

Could you please share some light on this?

How does one become irony-impared? Is there any cure?

Thanks

NOT A TEACHER.

Do you mean "impaired"? If so, "irony-impaired" doesn't make any sense to me, but it might to others.

 

[TheParser]

Dear teachers and friends

Could you please share some light on this?

How does one become irony-impared? Is there any cure?

Thanks

NOT A TEACHER


(1) Maybe "irony-impaired" means that a person is not able to recognize irony.

(2) (It is raining cats and dogs)

Martha: Lovely day, isn't it!!!

James: No, it isn't!!! It's really raining hard.

He did not understand that Martha was being ironic when she said those

words.

 

[BobK]

:up: It's a jocular analogy, poking gentle fun at politically-correct shibboleths like 'You mustn't call people who can't hear "deaf"; you must call them "hearing-impaired".' A similar thing is done with the expression 'coronary bypass'; someone with no sense of humour is sometimes said to have had 'a humor-bypass' (no typo, this strikes me as an American sort of joke).

b
PS I know I know I know already: 'hearing-impaired' covers a range of abilities ranging from hard-of-hearing to deaf-as-a-post. But there is a knee-jerk reaction in many contexts to replace 'deaf' with the euphemism, just as 'OAP' [=Old Age Pensioner] has been virtually extinguished by the importation of 'Senior Citizen'.

 

[Tdol]

And there is no cure. ;-)