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Journal by The Mighty Buzzard

Hipsters and millennials, please learn what irony means. Most of the ways you use it, they're just you being a pretentious little shit not irony. This is irony (and also funny as a motherfucker).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @05:11PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @05:11PM (#817404)

    Counterpoint: English is defined by use

    Wow, and me without an "Ironic" moderation option.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 20 2019, @08:27PM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday March 20 2019, @08:27PM (#817497) Journal

    I know that TMB likes his irony like he likes his rot-iron fences, pre-Madonna and good for his self of steam. But what do we axpect when football players no longer stand at a tension, and people take it for granite that the precedent is a crook? I am not waiting with baited breath and biting my time till American gets to a better end. It's a tough road to hoe, and not everyone can tow the line, but it seems American English is held together with bailing wire and duck tape, and bare in mind that we should not get boggled down in grammer nazism and just cease the day and try to avoid cognitive dissidence.

    http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/ [lascribe.net]

    Oh, and, it does not beg the question [grammarist.com], nor is it something of a damp squid [telegraph.co.uk]. If you let the illiterate define language by their misuse, your talk gets all ironedy.

    • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday March 21 2019, @12:22AM (1 child)

      by NewNic (6420) on Thursday March 21 2019, @12:22AM (#817632) Journal

      It's a tough road to hoe

      I think you missed something there. Should it not be "a tuft rowed to ho"?

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      lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory