Warp wrote:
> Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>>> The longest English word found 
>>>>> in the entire result set was the word "rare".
>>>> Ooohhhh the irony! ;-)
>>>   I have sometimes noticed that people use the word "irony" in situations
>>> where it doesn't match the definition of the word. I think this is one
>>> such case.
>> Could that be because many of us are native English speakers and
>> therefore understand the subtleties of the Eng. Lang. more intuitively?
>> BTW Not meant offensively
> 
>   I'm not the only one who thinks that the word "irony" is misused.
> For example, see entry number 3 here:
> http://www.cracked.com/article_15664_9-words-that-dont-mean-what-you-think.html

I've just reread Andrew's post and I think that it is perfectly possible
that he might have meant the remark 'Ooohhh the irony!' in an ironical
fashion :-)

John

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world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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