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Yes, irony depends on correctness.

It would be ironic for me to make a typo while bashing your spelling prowess. It would not be ironic if I didn’t.

It is similarly ironic that the Alanis Morrisette song about irony mostly mentions non-ironic things; “rain on your wedding day” isn’t ironic! And that’s ironic!



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