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Jul 20, 2010 17:54

 Bemused means mildly confused - contrary to appearances it has nothing to do with amusement (though you can be bemused and amused at the same time).

Irony is humour derived from the opposite of something - it's ironic if you set an animal free to live as it pleases and have a nicer life than it does in captivity, and it instantly gets eaten (I know, brutal example :-s). Dramatic irony is when an audience knows something that the characters of a play (or film, I suppose) do not. Irony is not when you're thinking about someone and they appear - that is serendipity, or coincidence.

Drug is not, and has never been, the past tense of 'drag'. The past tense of drag is 'dragged'. If you drug someone, you are giving them drugs, and that is also the present tense. The past tense of drug is 'drugged'.

And, apparently, I am going to continue complaining about bad grammar being used online - but I have to get my frustration out somewhere, I suppose.
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