• frezik
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          3 months ago

          Quick, someone said “irony” and nobody knows what that is! I’ll vaguely point at a non-specific dictionary as if they were wrong, and therefore I won the debate.

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            3 months ago

            Quick, someone said “irony” and nobody knows what that is!

            Happens more often than you’d like to think.

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              3 months ago

              You mean the bit where you vaguely point at a non-specific dictionary as if they were wrong, and therefore won the debate? Maybe you should stop doing that and people will downvote you less.

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                3 months ago

                you vaguely point at a non-specific dictionary

                I guess I’m so old that I assume Merriam-Webster is unspoken default. Do you have a different dictionary that you prefer?

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                    3 months ago

                    If you have one specific one in mind

                    Merriam-Webster.

                    Although the definitions overlap heavily, so you’re not pegged to that one.