I think the second example also falls under “unfortunate”, I would call it ironic if you had planned the trip for Sunday, but moved it to Saturday because of the weather forecast, then it ended up being rainy on Saturday and sunny on Sunday. Although specifically where I’m from I would still put that chain of events within the range of “likely to happen” (unpredictable weather is a bitch).
For everyone I know, rain on one’s wedding day would indeed be cruelly, humorously, and strangely at odds with expectations.
Yeah I think you’re right. I strongly disagree with the authors use of “expectations” here.
You don’t want it to rain during a wedding, But nobody has any expectations that it won’t. Catering companies and venues have tents for this purpose because it is expected to happen occasionally.
For the last time all of the events in ironic were by definition ironic.
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I think the second example also falls under “unfortunate”, I would call it ironic if you had planned the trip for Sunday, but moved it to Saturday because of the weather forecast, then it ended up being rainy on Saturday and sunny on Sunday. Although specifically where I’m from I would still put that chain of events within the range of “likely to happen” (unpredictable weather is a bitch).
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Yeah I think you’re right. I strongly disagree with the authors use of “expectations” here.
You don’t want it to rain during a wedding, But nobody has any expectations that it won’t. Catering companies and venues have tents for this purpose because it is expected to happen occasionally.