he yearns

How do you mine for children? Do they form like crystals in the earth?

Look on my works Sim Mayor and

Pedant version: [eat || (drink water)]

When my kids were younger I treated the internet like a large room full of strangers of all kinds good and bad. I wouldn't let my 8yr old wonder around on her own there so why would I on social media or multiplayer games.

That's an odd way to twist it. I must have had "parent" tagged to my avatar so to avoid the nasties.

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree - I agree that there are people misusing the words ironic/unironic, I don't think this case is one of them. Have a good one!

yeah playing with the three types of irony was extremely popular in early 1700s britlit. early american lit tried to distinguish itself from britlit by focusing less on irony and more on allegory and symbolism. however by the late 1800s american lit came to emphasize irony almost as hard as the previous century's britlit had, though i think our only author to really do as much verbal irony (saying one thing, meaning another) as that era of britlit was F Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s.

i'm curious now how Australian literature plays with irony. if there's an absence of verbal irony, is there more literary irony (the consequences of the action are tied comically to the action) and dramatic irony (the audience knows things the characters don't)? and did the divergence happen because our war of independence resulted in the brits no longer using our southern colonies as a penal colony just as they were getting bored of this?

or were early Australians more likely to reject this device because they felt it was a signifier of their oppressors?