speaking about irony...

Jul 27, 2009 23:18

'We were all there,' said Miss Mary - 'mamma and all of us. We even persuaded papa to go. Hannah would insist upon it. But he fell asleep while Mr. Langweilig, the German Moravian minister, was speaking. I felt quite ashamed, he nodded so.'
(from "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë)

note: langweilig means boring in German.

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pixychild July 27 2009, 20:56:39 UTC
lol

old brit writers were good at that stuff XD
especially the chicks xD

Actually, on a whole modern brit writers are still good at irony :D

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kasumi_3y July 27 2009, 21:10:38 UTC
they sure are xD

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