an exchange about Re: humor

[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Friday, September 09, 2005 8:03 AM -0700 "Arnold M. Zwicky"
<zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

> 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

How about, "Ironically, i won't even mention the fact that that's some kind
of metalanguage."


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