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Itasan



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Location: Yokohama, Japan
PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:39 am    Post subject: unintended humor Reply with quote
"The passage of time has invested the words with an unintended humor."
I wonder what this 'humor' means here.
'a humorous meaning' or just 'a meaning' or anything else?

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