05 Jul Feedback: Beautiful irony
Posted at 14:19h
in That's life
A Contrarian reader responds to this, uh, lengthy post:
Dear Contrarian,
I can’t help commenting on the beauty of “overly prolix”: both redundant and triply ironic all at once. Redundant because… well, that part’s obvious, and triply ironic as it’s prolix in and of itself, it’s an error in a story about irony, and it’s in a column about proper writing. Nicely done!
Peter Trask
Dartmouth
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