Do you think that Brits value irony more than Americans?
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misshell on fire
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Most definately.
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I think the Brits have a very dry sense of humor and appreciate/understand subtlety..sometimes irony lies just below the surface and those people who think the Three Stooges are the best wouldn't necessarily bother to take the time to look beneath the surface! :)
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It's not that the Americans don't value irony - they just have a hard time understanding what it is. ;)
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Yes some British humour is much more subtle and ironic, Although Britain does have to lay claim to the 'Carry On' series and that is like hitting people on the head with a lump hammer.
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I suspect that Britons recognise and appreciate irony more than Americans do, but this is only based on what I have seen of American television shows. It seems to me that American humour has much in common with a lot of American food - fast and without subtlety.
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I think that it is ironic that anyone would think that any group of people as large as the population of the US, with the commensurate differences in national origin and culture, could ever be classified by any imagined valuation, whether irony or otherwise. In the US, preferences in many categories vary across towns, not to mention counties, states, regions, and the various demographic groups. The same is certainly true of England, especially with the influx from foreign countries. There's your irony. I value it and I'm an American.
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Irony is much more common in common British speech than American. Brits *use* it more. Which does not reflect on value.
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