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In those cases, perhaps its use was objectively ironic, but it was not ironic from the speaker's perspective.
by xapata 10y ago
In those cases, perhaps its use was objectively ironic, but it was not ironic from the speaker's perspective.
- dragonwriter 10y agoWhile a minority of users may not have ironic intent, usually its use in the context referenced is deliberately ironic; the pejorative use has always been far more common, and it's very unusual for someone using the phrase in any sense not to be aware of that and, if not using it in the pejorative sense, be making a deliberate, usually ironic, reference to that well-known sense when using it in any other way.