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Subject:Re: Irony Dectectors (WAS: Ph.D.'s) From:JohnG_AT_spboscc%ccMail -at- SILVERPLATTER -dot- COM Date:Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:12:03 -0400
Wayne,
That's a good point.
Maybe that edginess was good for his career.
John Goldie
johng -at- silverplatter -dot- com
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Subject: Re: Irony Dectectors (WAS: Ph.D.'s)
Author: wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM at SILVERPLATTER
Date: 12/31/96 8:48 AM
At 10:34 AM 12/31/96 -0400, John wrote: > That's amazing!
>
> It's nearly impossible to believe writers could have used irony
without > this convention for, what, three thousand years?
>
Yeah, but look at all the trouble Jonathan Swift got into without it.
--Wayne Douglass
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