• @[email protected]
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    132 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.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      -142 months ago

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

      Happens more often than you’d like to think.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 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.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          -62 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?

          • @Resonosity
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            22 months ago

            There are literally like 10 different major dictionaries. If you have one specific one in mind, I’ll kindly refer you to OneLook.com

            • @UnderpantsWeevil
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              -12 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.