But did the voters who backed the slogan really intend that Australia be left with no climate change policy at all? Did they really think they would be $550 a year better off?
Irony may be obvious (Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was not seriously advocating raising Irish babies for the English table), but it may also be so subtle as to escape detection (did Niccolò Machiavelli really intend that his praise for Cesare Borgia be taken seriously?).
Mr. Gore promotes his $115 billion education plan as "revolutionary," a word that normally suggests a radical overthrow of the current order; it is not clear that Mr. Gore, who carries the endorsements of the big teachers' unions, really intends that, but he applies phrase relentlessly.
"We felt like we found the market, but the product itself wasn't really intended for that".
I doubt that Byrne intended that meaning.
"If we really intended to do that, we'd be really good at it". "It would be awesome," nods VanWyngarden excitedly.
"The Transformed Man," an album he made in 1968, has become a novelty classic, thanks to its "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," though he didn't really intend it that way.
"Snapchat would be the first social media company that has developed a profit center that is really intended to scale through lots of individual users, rather than selling services or products to companies," said Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute.
She called the woman to both thank her and double-check that she really intended to write a check with that many zeros.
"The thing that's hard about [voice] is that a lot of that isn't really intended by the advertiser," Kilbourne said.
