Irony - This word, I do not think it means... (Score 0)

...what you think it means. Perhaps you meant coincidental, or even if you felt it was a fortunate coincidence you could call it fortuitous. But I see nothing that qualifies it as ironic, much less apparently so. Irony (from the Ancient Greek Îá¼ÏÏνÎÎα eirÅneÃa, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood. Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience. There is some argument about what qualifies as ironic, but all senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or between an understanding or expectation of a reality and what actually happens, "when the literal truth is in direct discordance to the perceived truth."