{"id":4299,"date":"2004-12-20T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T16:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/20\/more-hollyku-not-a-conspiracy"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:07","slug":"more-hollyku-not-a-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/20\/more-hollyku-not-a-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"more hollyku (not a conspiracy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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– For more, see our christmas season haiku<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>. <\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Page <\/FONT>and our New Year haiku & senryu<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> Page <\/FONT>–<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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I realized, after posting the prior Hollyku<\/FONT><\/A> message very early this morning,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that I had forgotten <\/FONT>the gang at Volokh’s place.  Since my webserver won’t <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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let me edit the <\/FONT>earlier post (I can’t explain it), and I had no intent to boycott<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the VConspirators, they get their own <\/FONT>little <\/FONT>dedication (plus, a pointer to EV’s<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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excellent <\/FONT>post<\/FONT><\/A> on the freedom to tell the truth about another person):<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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for Eugene, Orin, Erik, David(s) and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the entire <\/FONT>Volokh<\/FONT><\/A> Cabal<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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shortest day —
all of the yellow
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                           <\/FONT>MATT MORDEN<\/FONT><\/A>, from The Heron’s Nest<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> V:3          \"stainHollyF\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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update<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG> (5 PM): How could I possibly forget my weblog-haijin colleagues, Paul<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and Mary Melodee <\/FONT>Mena at haikupoet.com<\/A><\/FONT>?  [Being an Old Soul might be good,<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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but being an Old Brain is not.] Since <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT>they’re suffering from an Artic Express today, <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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like we are in Schenectady, they <\/SPAN><\/FONT>will hopefully understand dagosan’s lament:<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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bitter cold<\/DIV>
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before the solstice:<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the weather man’s surprised<\/DIV>
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                                           dagosan<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/FONT> [Dec. 20, 2004]<\/FONT> <\/EM><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/DIV>
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by dagosan<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG>:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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married a decade<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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she hides<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the mistletoe<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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married a decade<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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he buys<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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new mistletoe<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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 one-breath pundit<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><\/P>
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\"tiny Not an Irony<\/STRONG><\/EM>: One of my biggest pet language peeves is the misuse of the <\/FONT>
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adverb “ironically<\/EM>.”  See a fuller discussion <\/FONT>here<\/FONT><\/A>.  I am happy to say, therefore,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that it was not ironic, but definitely serendipitous and coincidental to counting<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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our year-end blessings, that someone did a <\/FONT>Google search<\/FONT><\/A> today for the query<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 Ironic vs coincidental<\/STRONG>>  and f\/k\/a<\/EM> was the #1 result in the Search.   As we<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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stated in our earlier post and are more than willing to reiterate:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 The indiscriminate discovery or attribution of irony where there is <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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no incongruity is, to use the vernacular, dumbing down the English <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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language, as well as the human thought process.  As aptly <\/FONT>noted<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the American Heritage Dictionary: <\/EM>  <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The words ironic, irony,<\/I> and ironically<\/I> are sometimes <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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used of events and circumstances that might better be <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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described as simply “coincidental” or “improbable,” in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that they suggest no particular lessons about human <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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vanity or folly.  <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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For further discussion of the use and misuse of the concept of irony, see <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Guardian <\/EM>article<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> Isn’t It Ironic? <\/EM>(June 28, 2003) and the <\/FONT>Wikipedia entry<\/FONT><\/A> .<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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