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Subject:Re: Pet Peeve Words, a rebuttal? From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:49:04 -0700
At 09:09 PM 9/13/97 -0500, Paul C. Nendick wrote:
>I claim many writers misuse 'irony/ironic' when 'coincidental'
>or another word would be more precise.
>
>Example:
>"In a ironic twist of fate, a woman was killed today when a car
> driven by her fiancé plummeted from a cliff onto her bungalow
> where she was cheating on him with his best friend."
>
>...which may better be expressed by...
>
>"By tragic coincidence, a woman was killed today when a car
> driven by her fiancé plummeted from a cliff onto her bungalow where
> she was cheating on him with his best friend."
>
>Note: This is not an invitation to debate the use of the word tragic.
>
Even when the situation makes you bust a gut laughing?
--Wayne
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