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636326 No.636326 [Reply] [Original]

Back in the day, irony meant concealed superiority.

The word has come a long way since then. It's pretty ironic.

>> No.636327

That is what is meant by "Socratic Irony" by the way.
Socrates acts ironically by pretending to be ignorant.

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>> No.636366

Hipsters ruin everything.

>> No.636373

>>636366
>Hipsters need to die
fix'd.

>> No.636394

The term irony is so watered-down in modern usage that it has become almost meaningless. It sucks because there is no substitute for it in the English language and when something is genuinely ironic, I want to be able to declare it as such.

I blame Alanis Morissette and hipsters for ruining this perfectly good word.

>> No.636400

>>636394
lets make a new one

I propose "ucklish"

>> No.636412

>>636327

That's only one kind of irony, in a very specific context.