Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"?


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Regarding feigning cavillasurdastery:

#16928 01/26/2001 3:52 PM

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this too shall pass

tsuwm

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tsuwm

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Joined: Apr 2000

Posts: 10,542
this too shall pass

absurd adds ab- as an intensifier to our root surdus in the sense of insufferable to the ear! I am really enamo(u)red with capturing this in the thing, so I would modify it slightly to cavillabsurdastery, and for feigning it I propose pseudocavillabsurdity.

/ca VIL ab sur DAS tery/?

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Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? Alex Williams 01/25/2001 3:04 PM

Great question! Faldage 01/25/2001 3:26 PM

Re: Great question! tsuwm 01/25/2001 4:25 PM

Re: Great question! of troy 01/25/2001 4:38 PM

Re: Great question! Fiberbabe 01/25/2001 5:02 PM

Re: Great question! Alex Williams 01/25/2001 5:06 PM

Re: Great question! stales 01/30/2001 7:46 AM

Steve Martin Alex Williams 01/30/2001 1:14 PM

Re: Steve Martin Max Quordlepleen 01/30/2001 5:45 PM

Re: Great question! jmh 01/26/2001 1:26 PM

Re: Heads Up! wow 01/26/2001 2:00 PM

Re: Heads Up! bikermom 01/30/2001 10:17 PM

Re: Great question! tsuwm 01/26/2001 4:02 AM

Re: Great question! wsieber 01/26/2001 7:30 AM

Re: Great question! FishonaBike 01/26/2001 9:54 PM

Re: Great question! tsuwm 01/26/2001 10:09 PM

enantiosis Alex Williams 01/28/2001 6:24 PM

Re: Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? wsieber 01/26/2001 7:42 AM

Re: Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? Capital Kiwi 01/26/2001 11:10 AM

Re: Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? Faldage 01/26/2001 3:00 PM

Regarding feigning cavillasurdastery: tsuwm 01/26/2001 3:52 PM

Re: /ca VIL ab sur DAS tery/ Faldage 01/26/2001 4:03 PM

Re: /ca VIL ab sur DAS tery/ maverick 01/26/2001 7:07 PM

Re: code AnnaStrophic 01/26/2001 9:27 PM

Re: Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? maverick 01/26/2001 3:03 PM

Re: Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? Capital Kiwi 01/29/2001 2:58 AM

Re: Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? Alex Williams 01/29/2001 4:53 PM

Re: Better word for the phrase "irony deafness"? Bingley 01/30/2001 5:22 AM

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