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  1. 11-Oct-2007, 17:33 #1
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    What is is called when you call a tall person "Shorty" or a hariy guy "Baldy"?
  2. 11-Oct-2007, 21:06 #2
    mykwyner
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    I call it "verbal irony."
  3. 11-Oct-2007, 22:35 #3
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    These are nicknames [which often but not always contain verbal irony].
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