[Sigia-l] Information Architect Job Openings with LDS Church

[Scott Nelson]

On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 01:51  AM, Listera wrote:

> It's ironic that today's New York Times chimes in with a lengthy 
> article on
> the new trend of camouflaging religion to sell it more effectively on 
> the
> web:

That is in no way ironic: see below.

 From the Merriam-Webster online edition:

Main Entry:       iro·ny
  Pronunciation:        'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
  Function:        noun
  Inflected Form(s):       plural -nies
  Etymology:        Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn 
dissembler
  1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another 
assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by 
adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially 
the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic 
literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression 
or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events 
and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by 
such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a 
drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the 
audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic 
irony, tragic irony
synonym see WIT

--
Scott Nelson
scott at penguinstorm.com