"Up tight" redux

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:29:11 -0400, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Exactly so, Ben. (Am I correct in detecting a note of irony or,
>perhaps, even sarcasm, in your response?) In any case, I agree with
>your analysis as to how the truly relevant example came to be
>overlooked.

Where are those darned prosodicons when you need them? I need one for
"gentle irony, not rising to the level of sarcasm, with a self-deprecating
note of sympathy stemming from similar memory lapses of one's own"...


--Ben Zimmer