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Re:Hacker News' Reading Level by j_baker on Sunday December 12, 2010 @08:10PM (#1998759)
"contrived banality disguised as conceptual depth"

Is it possible this phrase is an example of itself? :-)

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Re:Hacker News' Reading Level by astrofinch on Sunday December 12, 2010 @10:44PM (#1999195)
Words that describe themselves: short, convoluted, awkward, multilingual.
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Re:Hacker News' Reading Level by gjm11 on Monday December 13, 2010 @05:12AM (#2000007)
Is the word (assuming it to be one) "non-self-describing" self-describing, or non-self-describing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grelling-Nelson%20paradox

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Re:Hacker News' Reading Level by IsaacL on Monday December 13, 2010 @06:37AM (#2000115)
"Pentasyllabic"
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Re:Hacker News' Reading Level by mahmud on Sunday December 12, 2010 @09:38PM (#1999008) 

      I am sure it was indented as such.
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Re:Hacker News' Reading Level by mbm on Sunday December 12, 2010 @08:36PM (#1998833)
Irony: (n) - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
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