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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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a happy new year.

Does the expression have an ironic or sarky meaning?
Let's say three guys are talking,
and one is going on about something quite difficult and hard
to understand,
so another says 'Ok, ok, it's very good.'
and the first guy goes, 'meretricious'
and the other guy's like, 'and a happy new year.'
  

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I'm not sure of the correct designation for this type of humor. " ) By "sarky," do you mean "snarky"? Personally, I don't find it to be either snarky or Ironic.

— Avangi

  • I'm not sure of the correct designation for this type of humor.
  • " ) By "sarky," do you mean "snarky"?
  • Personally, I don't find it to be either snarky or Ironic.
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I'm not sure of the correct designation for this type of humor. I'd have to do some "research."
To me, it's just a sort of "pun." "Meretricious" sounds like "Merry Christmas." (I guess you know that!"
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By "sarky", I mean "sarcastic." it's a informal form of "sarcastic", I understand.
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year, a sort of pun, it seems likely.
That never occurred to me.

Thanks Avangi.
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You're welcome. -- And thank you. It never occurred to me that "sarky" was an informal form of "sarcastic."
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