[Ads-l] inplausible

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Geoff Nathanwrote:
>
> Related, perhaps, is that I frequently see 'unpossible'.
>
> Always ironically (with meaning: 'I had been promised/I promised
> that X would never happen, even though any rational person could
> have predicted that it would')

I would wager that many of those ironists are quoting the great Ralph Wiggum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzyCi1BFATA
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Simpsons/Season_6#Lisa_on_Ice

--bgz


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