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Do you mean Constantinople was the center of civilization such as a thousand years? Or was it identical to a thousand years?



Never fear; the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary can help you out:

> like, adverb

> 2. used in very informal speech to show that what you are saying may not be exactly right but is nearly so

Pedantry is neither clever nor educational.


> Pedantry is neither clever nor educational.

What about irony?


Is that when something resembles an iron?


Exactly. Irony means, like, iron.


Wait. Like iron, or like an iron?

And what's the difference between "irony", "ironic", and "ironous"?


Sorry, what I ment to say was like an iron. Ironous is, like, iron.




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