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j_baker on Dec 13, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacker News' Reading Level

"contrived banality disguised as conceptual depth"

Is it possible this phrase is an example of itself? :-)

astrofinch on Dec 13, 2010 | [–]

Words that describe themselves: short, convoluted, awkward, multilingual.

gjm11 on Dec 13, 2010 | | [–]

Is the word (assuming it to be one) "non-self-describing" self-describing, or non-self-describing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grelling-Nelson%20paradox

IsaacL on Dec 13, 2010 | | | [–]

"Pentasyllabic"

mahmud on Dec 13, 2010 | | [–]

      I am sure it was indented as such.

mbm on Dec 13, 2010 | [–]

Irony: (n) - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

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