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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube fucking "deceptively"
"the question was deceptively simple" can mean that it seems simple but isn't, OR that it doesn't seem simple but it is
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:17 PM Author: Violet psychic office Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube ooh good one!
"this oversight was a result of a serious lack of oversight" |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: vibrant slate hunting ground That's not a function of the word but of pragmatics pertaining to the properties of the question. I thought this thread was about stuff like innervate / enervate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube fine - i mean words that CAN, depending on context, mean two things that are opposites*
but innervate/enervate is welcome here too, equally TTT |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: vibrant slate hunting ground Broadly speaking, any word can have two opposite meanings in the sense you mean if you vary the pragmatics—that is why irony is possible and so rich in language. Your issue seems to be with imprecision introduced by using a word like "deceptively" to modify an adjective, since there's ambiguity about whether what is "deceptive" is the easiness or the initial appearance while the true nature is easy.
The meaning can be cleaned up a bit by just modifying the word order and punctuation: "Deceptively, the test was simple" to my ear sounds like the test was in fact simple; "The test was simple—deceptively" sounds to me like it appeared simple but that appearance was deceptive.
Still, all told this is an unfortunate construction and best avoided altogether save when strategic ambiguity is the goal. |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:41 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube credited analysis ty!! i don't necessarily share your interpretations of the two examples you gave, but good call about the ambiguity of what "deceptively" is modifying
and yeah i realized after poasting that someone was probably going to point out that ANY word can mean diff things based on context >__> |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: Frisky Menage need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: light spectacular candlestick maker affirmative action inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Elite pervert internal respiration (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube well the issue with that one is that the two words sound like opposites but are synonyms. also TTT. i'm guessing the "in" is from "inflame" but i'm too lazy to verify (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Sapphire beady-eyed boltzmann round eye cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: Know-it-all Laughsome Masturbator that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: mentally impaired khaki indian lodge mood so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: swashbuckling legal warrant private investor Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Adventurous Nudist Kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Milky church faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: swashbuckling legal warrant private investor Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: swashbuckling legal warrant private investor They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube tyty! it would be funny if "contronym" also meant "words that sound like antonyms but are synonyms" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: swashbuckling legal warrant private investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: vibrant slate hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Thriller stag film science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: high-end garnet keepsake machete cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Mewling feces moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: fragrant pearl kitty cat headpube whoa i didn't even know it had the "debatable" meaning; i always just used it to mean "irrelevant" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#43974567) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2:#49802525) |