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Originally Posted by ApK
On what do you base the 100 year number?
If that's true, it should have been constantly resisted from the moment it started. Ever vigilant!
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I'll make this my last word on the subject so as to avoid the hand of the mods. Here's my citing, from
Webster:
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The historical record shows that irony and ironic have been used imprecisely for almost 100 years at least, and often to refer to coincidence. This 1939 quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald is typical: "It is an ironic thought that the last picture job I took—against my better judgment—yielded me five thousand dollars five hundred and cost over four thousand in medical attention." Is this true situational irony? It’s debatable.
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Originally Posted by ApK
How long before "me" as a synonym of "I" becomes standard usage, since so many people misuse it that way?
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To me that's no worse an abomination than the modern invention of "ze." English isn't english any more. My comics aren't my comics any more. I'm just getting too darn old.
