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ITT: linguistic/philosophical/grammatic ironies
I'll start
"Colloquial" is not colloquial.

>> No.3428121

The correct term is heterological.

>> No.3428125
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One of the worst threads I've ever seen.

>> No.3428131

>>3428106
Despite the expectation that one knows what a word means when they use it, ironically, most people completely misuse the word "irony".

>> No.3428137

>>3428131
no one's going to top this one

>> No.3428141

Ironically, 'ironic' would be an ironic answer to this question because it is not any sort of irony.

Or not, I don't know what irony means.

>> No.3428142

wouldn't it be ironic if colloquial WAS colloquial?

>> No.3428166

Is it ironic that OP doesn't know what irony is?

I've never held the belief that OP is in any way a knowledgeable person.

>> No.3428192

A sesquipedalian person would be very fond of the word "sesquipedalian".
And just look at how many syllables are in "monosyllabic"!

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IT'S LIKE RAAAAAAAIIIIIIN
ON YOUR WEDDING DAY!

>> No.3429942

Is "the pot calling the kettle black" considered to be ironic? If not, what is the correct term?

>> No.3429974 [DELETED] 

Hueueueueue. Yeah!

And, uh--abbreviation is such a long word! Ahahahaha.

What a world!

>> No.3429999

>>3429942
It is ironic that the pot is calling the kettle black

Ultimately what it really is is ad-hominem.

>> No.3430008

One day DFW put the words “pulchritudinous,” “miniscule,” “big,” and “misspelled” on the blackboard. He asked his students what the four words had in common, and, when no one knew

>> No.3430039

isn't it funny how the word 'red' is not written in red?

also some words sound like other words

>> No.3430063

round can be all types - noun, verb etc

facetious is the only word with all the vowels in order.

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>>3430008
>One day he put the words “pulchritudinous,” “miniscule,” “big,” and “misspelled” on the blackboard. He asked his students what the four words had in common, and, when no one knew, happily pointed out that the appearance of each was the opposite of its meaning: “pulchritudinous” was ugly, “miniscule” was big, “big” was small, and “misspelled” was spelled correctly. The students had rarely seen him so happy.

What a fucking faggot.

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Fear of long words = hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

>> No.3431886

>>3429999
It's called hypocrisy.