an exchange about Re: humor

Fri Sep 9 15:03:12 UTC 2005

On Sep 9, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:33:13AM -0700, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>
>> i forwarded my posting Re: humor (about a response to a Language Log
>> posting of mine) on to geoff pullum, who responded:
>>
>>   This is a joke, right?
>>
>> to which i replied:
>>
>>   this is irony, right?
>>
>> and he returned:
>>
>>   That's some kind of figure of speech, right?
>>
>> i am now pondering my response...
>>
>
> Whatever it is, make sure it begins with "I won't even mention
> the fact that..."

i've combined this with dInIs's suggestion, to get:

   i won't even mention the fact that that's some kind of metalanguage.

ADS comes through again!

arnold