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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

I mean you’re fifteen, dork...

Sadie: No, too sexy. It's not you.
Jude: What do you mean, it's not me?
Sadie: I mean you’re fifteen, dork. Is 'dork' insulting
or facetious?
  

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I think "dork" is always a pejorative. Therefore it could not be facetious?? Edit.

— Avangi

  • I think "dork" is always a pejorative.
  • Therefore it could not be facetious??
  • Edit.
  • Well, a trip to my dictionary suggests that irony or sarcasm isn't necessary for a thing to be facetious.
  • So I guess you want to know if the speaker is intending to be insulting or facetious?
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I think "dork" is always a pejorative. Therefore it could not be facetious??

Edit. Well, a trip to my dictionary suggests that irony or sarcasm isn't necessary for a thing to be facetious.
So I guess you want to know if the speaker is intending to be insulting or facetious?

If you don't know these characters by now!!! (at least, better than I do!)
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AvangiSo I guess you want to know if the speaker is intending to be insulting or facetious?
Exactly.
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Judging by what little there is to go on, I'd say, "facetious." Emotion: happy - A.
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