an exchange about Re: humor

[Jonathan Lighter]

Try :

Yeah, right.

That should stop him.

Add quotation marks for maximum ambiguity.

JL

"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: "Arnold M. Zwicky"
Subject: an exchange about Re: humor
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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...

arnold


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