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"Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
These are days when ancients held a rite
Of expiation for the old year's ill,
And prayer to purify the new year's will."
Helen Hunt Jackson, A Calendar of Sonnet's: February
And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
These are days when ancients held a rite
Of expiation for the old year's ill,
And prayer to purify the new year's will."
Helen Hunt Jackson, A Calendar of Sonnet's: February
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amatsuscribbler
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If you want to understand something of English satire/irony this man will give you an idea. It's not easy listening and you have to know a little of what is going on in British Poilitics but he follows a long line of political satirists.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO79NsDE5FpMowUH1YcBFcA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO79NsDE5FpMowUH1YcBFcA
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> If you want to understand something of English satire/irony this man will give you an idea.
> @mheredge said:
> Britain in a Vegetative State is particularly apt. What a wonderful rant! Unfortunately it isn't funny because it is too true.
Frankly speaking, I fail to see any humour in those videos, I've watched three of them, including the @mheredge 's one. А straight-forward, angry, emotional speech on grave political problems, yes, but humour? No.
youtu.be/tk7pk58Bq4Q?t=1381
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The video you posted is not funny to me! It's informative. But that's humour for you! One man's meat is another man's poison.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Very interesting, @amatsuscribbler !
I admit that your video's talking speed is at the edge of my listening abilities. It looks like the reason why I don't see humour there. But could you please copy and paste another link, which is plain text, into the address line of your browser? I wonder whether you'll find that scene funny. I haven't embedded the Youtube video here because it won't play from the specified place, you can do it on Youtube only.
Can you explain a bit more what you mean? Or @Teach might help me?!
This will lead you to the Youtube site which will play a video from a specified place. I find that scene a fine example of humour and would like to know your opinion about it.
I haven't posted the link in the usual way, since it won't play from that place, rather from the beginning, and since the video is quite long, that wouldn't do the trick.
Yes, Jeeves and Wooster can be very funny. It is not, however, ironic or satirical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
I'm sure irony/satire must be used in other countries?
As for using irony in other countries, yes that’s used. I believe this Soviet-time political joke is an example of the both irony and satire:
A: Yes, but the Constitution of the USA also guarantees freedom after the speech.’
Wooster: ‘Well, it depends on whose wife it was; I would say a...gentle pressure beneath the left elbow when crossing a busy street normally fills the bill!?’
Probably I must have added the context to the dialogue what I’m doing now: Wooster’s aunt and Lady Glossop had been considering to arrange the marriage of Wooster with the Lady Glossop’s daughter. I thought for some reason that every Brit knows the ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ series by heart
So knowing the context is important to the matter if a person finds a piece funny [or finds humour in it]. Does this excerpt from the starting message’s video make you smile?
I don’t and the reason most likely that I don’t know the context. I hadn't known who Garry Lineker, Walker and Russel Brand had been as well as anything about the football career of the first, and the 'Flavour sensations' promotion campaign of the second before I googled all of these, but the Wikipedia's articles didn’t really help.
And last, on the irony usage, I think that’s the English preferred humorous device, while other people prefer others, such as the French like to use wordplay while Russians tend to use, actually overuse hyperbole.
12 fun maps that show ways Britain’s divided other than on Brexit.
https://inktank.fi/12-fun-maps-that-show-ways-britains-divided-other-than-on-brexit/