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Thread #64556   Message #1056276
Posted By: Wolfgang
18-Nov-03 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Paradox and irony
Subject: RE: BS: Paradox and irony
I don't see people misusing the word 'ironic' in the examples, for instance in the health food example. This use is well within one of the dictionary definitions cited above. You may complain that now the dictionaries allow more meanings than in the old times but to use the word 'misuse' for a meaning allowed by dictionaries stretches a bit the sense of this word.

Wolfgang