Hvordan kan man vite at en tekst er ironisk?

[Gjest]

Altså, i forhold til hvordan den er skrevet? Hvilke tegn er der på at en teks er ment ironisk? Hvordan vises ironien gammatisk?

[Northernlights]

Man må kanskje skjønne ironi ganske godt for å "lese" seg til ironi når man skriver. For det kan virke veldig frekt, om man ikke skjønner ironien.

;o)

 

[Gjest Riga + snulla & vesla]

Djeez, som et voksent menneske så burde du forstå hva som er ironi!

[Northernlights]

Den tok jeg ;o)

[Gjest Riga + snulla & vesla]

Det var bra...tok en råsjans!

[Gjest]

Nei, altså jeg skal bestemme om en tekst er ironisk eller om den er nøytral og informativ. Den er tydlig ironisk, men jeg har vanskelig for å sette fingeren på hvorfor, altså grammatisk og ved valg av ord, den er ironisk.

[Northernlights]

Det går vel mere på valg av ord i en viss sammenheng. Vanskelig og sette fingeren på det, synes jeg...

[Monajenten]

Kom med teksten da:-D

[Gjest]

Åh, jamen den er jo så lang..

[Gjest]

Ok, here it goes:

 

We’ve just had another regular visit from Christopher and Lavina Crumble, our private consumer research, marriage guidance, home heating, and child welfare advisory service.

They come in about once a month and straighten us out. What I admire about them is their tremendous firmness in dealing with us. It’s no good offering vague suggestions to feckless problem families like us. You’ve got to tell us exactly what to do, and then you have to damn well stand over us and make sure we do it.

Since they have a great sense of social responsibility and unbounded moral energy, the Crumbles usually sets to work before they are through the front door.

‘I see you’ve still got one of those old-fashioned locks’ says Christopher. ‘You realise that any half-wit burglar could pick this whit a bent pin and a nail-file in about five seconds flat? Couldn’t he darling?’

Christopher will give you the address of the firm that imports those new draught-proof Swiss micro-precision locks’ says Lavina. ‘Won’t you Darling?’

‘Oh, I’ll give their local office a ring tomorrow and get them to send you a fitter right away. No, no- no trouble at all. Is it darling?

By the time we sit down for dinner the Crumbles have already been putting our economy right on a number of points, and it’s the turn of my wife’s cooking for a helping hand. But the tact they do it with!

‘This apple-pie is absolutely marvellous, isn’t it darling?’

‘Marvellous’

‘Marvellous, of course we’ve rather gone off having heavy pastry dishes on top of great, greasy meals- haven’t we darling? –and I’ve got a wonderful new recipe for mango sorbet that you absolutely must try.’

‘We think it’s the only pudding that’s worth eating, don’t we darling?’

‘Though, obviously, we do adore apple-pie too.‘