(07-08-2024, 03:06 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: This might help. This lesson from English Lucy on British humour and comedy discusses irony, sarcasm, deadpan, wit, innuendo, banter & puns. You will learn what they are and how do use them, with examples.
Thank you - that did help, and explained it very nicely! Now I no longer have to go around with that dazed and confused look on my face, and can go to my grave knowing that it wasn't some sort of left-hand "compliment"! It was actually very appropriate and spot-on, rather than the insult I've gone all this time thinking it must have been.
It also means I can now stop plotting my revenge on them, and move on to more productive pastures...
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake