A few examples of irony in everyday Russian grammar
✏️ Only in Russian you can face a sentance composed just of three vowel sounds: "Э, а я?" [eh, a ya?] (Whoa, but what about me?).
✏️ Only in Russian you can make a sentence of five letters going one by one in Cyrillic Alphabet: "Где ёж?" [gd'e j'ozh?] (Where's the hedgehog?).
✏️ A phrase "Да нет, наверное" [da n'et nav'ernoe] ( Yes no, maybe) is probably the worst thing ever for poor Russian learner students. In this case "Да" serves as a kind of interjection. The way the whole sentence sounds sort of expresses our uncertainty or lack of confidence, when we're not sure about something.
✏️ That's hella funny, but "Чайник долго остывает" [ch'ay'n'ik dolgo ostyvaet] (The teapot cools off for a long time) и "Чайник долго не остывает" [ch'ay'n'ik dolgo ne ostyvaet] (The teapot doesn't cool off for a long time) mean exactly the same.