It Has Been Too Long Since We've Talked About This: GW Has High Prices!

[Chris Copeland]

Tzeentch, that is AWESOME!!!

[Tzeentch_Guard]

Yeah, it's amazing what you can come up with when you are bored on a slow Friday at work. Also, I applaude your Trolliness. Well done, sir.

[Chris Copeland]

Also, I applaude your Trolliness. Well done, sir.

Thank you... thank you. However, it begs the question: is it really trolling if it is clearly ironical? Part of me thinks not. The other part of me stands back with his mouth agape watching the the People of the Interwebz take threads like this seriously! However did we all convey meaning before the advent of emoticons?
Cheers! Copeland

[Tzeentch_Guard]

Thank you... thank you. However, it begs the question: is it really trolling if it is clearly ironical? Part of me thinks not. The other part of me stands back with his mouth agape watching the the People of the Interwebz take threads like this seriously! However did we all convey meaning before the advent of emoticons?
Cheers! Copeland

That's true, I don't know that it is trolling, but it is funny all the same. I have to laugh at GW's high prices, if only to keep from crying.

[Hive Mind]

Ironical isn't a word. Ironic, you mean ironic.

/Grammar National Socialist

[Chris Copeland]

Ironical isn't a word. Ironic, you mean ironic.

/Grammar National Socialist

Sorry, Hive: [URL="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ironical"]ironical[/URL] IS a word. It is an adjective that means "pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery." Example: I was being ironical when I suggested to GW was evil. I was using irony.

Cheers and good gaming to ya! Copeland

PS If you have WAY too much time on your hands you can look into the usage of ironic versus ironical with a quick Google search or by looking in an old fashioned paper-bound dictionary (does anyone actually own those anymore?). You can also click [URL="http://english-usage-mcallister.blogspot.com/2006/06/ironic-vs-ironical.html"]here[/URL] for a fairly pithy explanation.

Wow. Clearly I have too much time on my hands.

[Hive Mind]

Until it's in the OED, it's not a word.

[Chris Copeland]

Until it's in the OED, it's not a word.

Hive, I would be beyond surprised if ironical isn't listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is the older of the two forms (ironical & ironic) and sounds odd to the modern ear because, of the two, the latter is what gets broadly used these days. As a matter of fact, "ironical" probably sounds less odd to the English than it does to Americans because it still enjoys some usage there and nearly none here in the States.

I wish that I had a copy of the OED on hand. We could put this divisive debate to rest and finally bring peace to BoLS! :P

"How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature." ~ Soren Kierkegaard (May 05, 1813 - November 11, 1855)

[Wildeybeast]

I was about to leap to Hive's defence, but I checked and it is in fact in the OED, listed as a derivative of ironic. You learn something new every day. [url]http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ironic?q=ironical#ironic__3[/url]

Debate over.

PS. Extra points to copeland for using Kierkegaard as his example!

[Hive Mind]

I've had this argument before with my father-in-law. It's not in the print version so it's not a word.