• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    For me, my little pet peeve is when society changed the meaning of ironic to mean joking or satirical.

    Did they ‘literally’ changed it?

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      Perhaps not officially but i can see scholars eventually yielding to equate irony to mean satire.

      I remember growing up when the word ultimate is used everywhere and being equated to “super duper”. I later learned it ultimately (no pun intended) means final. I guess the same will happen to the word irony now also to mean satire.