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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by gouranga on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @03:55AM (#4099348)
That's awesome. I needed that last week ironically.

Thanks for posting.

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by sjwright on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @07:58AM (#4099970)
Ironically?
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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by gouranga on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @11:24AM (#4100903)
coincidental; unexpected.

Bloody pedants! Learn English.

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by sjwright on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @12:51AM (#4104375)
Irony is not coincidence, unexpected or otherwise.
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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by gouranga on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:10AM (#4104692)
Open a dictionary and take a look...

Here I saved you the effort seeing as you're obviously incapable:

http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by sjwright on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @06:10AM (#4105159)
Irony isn't a concept that lends itself to a trivial definition. That particular dictionary definition you cite isn't completely wrong, but it does suffer greatly from being overly terse.

The Merriam-Webster definition is much better: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

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Furthermore, dictionary definitions aren't two way streets, not everything that fits a description therefore matches the word. Imitate, the verb, can mean to make a copy of. "Please wait while I imitate the receipt for you."

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