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JackJJW Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
The Use of Irony (surprise, surprise!)
Please could someone tell me if this makes sense:
It’s Sunday and as usual it is the time of week when something silly excites me most. Tonight this honour belongs to the discovery of: floccinaucinihilipilification - “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2003). I love that a word can be so ironically ostentatious. Yes, I’ve been reading through the dictionary again.
This text is only for a personal blog, as such it doesn't need to be perfect writing, but I wanted to make sure I'd got the bit in red correct.
Thanks for any help or corrections.
It’s Sunday and as usual it is the time of week when something silly excites me most. Tonight this honour belongs to the discovery of: floccinaucinihilipilification - “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2003). I love that a word can be so ironically ostentatious. Yes, I’ve been reading through the dictionary again.
This text is only for a personal blog, as such it doesn't need to be perfect writing, but I wanted to make sure I'd got the bit in red correct.
Thanks for any help or corrections.
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JackJJW Please could someone tell me if this makes sense: It’s Sunday and as usual it is the time of week when something silly excites me most. ” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2003). I love that a word can be so ironically ostentatious.
- JackJJW Please could someone tell me if this makes sense: It’s Sunday and as usual it is the time of week when something silly excites me most.
- ” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2003).
- I love that a word can be so ironically ostentatious.
- Yes, I’ve been reading through the dictionary again.
- This text is only for a personal blog, as such it doesn't need to be perfect writing, but I wanted to make sure I'd got the bit in red correct.
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JackJJWPlease could someone tell me if this makes sense:
It’s Sunday and as usual it is the time of week when something silly excites me most. Tonight this honour belongs to the discovery of: floccinaucinihilipilification - “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2003). I love that a word can be so ironicall
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Thanks Phillip, very well explained and very helpful. I appreciate it.
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