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That's the problem with using "a modest proposal" for serious suggestions: you're supposed to use it for satire.
by flashman 9y ago
That's the problem with using "a modest proposal" for serious suggestions: you're supposed to use it for satire.
- thanksgiving 9y agoWait, so is the op actually suggesting we be able to use commas? I thought op meant to say people who want to use commas are exactly like people who want to eat human babies to solve the problem of child poverty.
- hoorayimhelping 9y agoThe second one. I read this as the author making fun of people who act like not having trailing commas is a situation so dire we may have to eat children.
- coldtea 9y ago>Wait, so is the op actually suggesting we be able to use commas? Yes, I think they do. The author just borrowed the title of Swift's article in the sense "here's a fun title based on a historical reference, for something that, for once, it's indeed a modest proposal". They didn't intend it in the exact same way Swift intended it.
- Al-Khwarizmi 9y agoWell, the subtitle is "Let Me Put a Fucking Comma There, Goddamnit, JSON", and the argumentation is "for the love of all that is fucking holy", so I'd say the intention of the author of the proposal was not to make it look serious.