--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Philip Hart wrote: ... > > >On the topic of "irony", I just came across one of my favorite > > >authors, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Duke of Palma and Prince of > > >Lampedusa), using the word in the Sethran sense, so I'm willing to > > >retract my former objection. > > > > > > > That's lucky. It's ironic that that statement is un-ironically true; I was about to rebut Philip's objections at length. In fact, as David suggested, "irony" has been used very confidently by a lot of people with a lot of meanings. > Actually I'm giving in to the flood of wrongness, a rather unSethran > choice I think... To the left, taking Fowler as an authority also doesn't strike me as very Sethran. On the gripping hand, taking Sethra as your role model (if that's what you're doing) doesn't strike me as very prudent for most of us. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail