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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| carmine school cafeteria boltzmann | 02/15/22 |
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| oomox | 04/07/26 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 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: Pungent misunderstood native place of business Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 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: house-broken bearded mental disorder dilemma 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...id.#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 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: house-broken bearded mental disorder dilemma 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: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 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: Unhinged vigorous preventive strike fat ankles need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: heady cowardly potus sound barrier inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: cracking citrine library (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 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...id.#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Galvanic Hospital cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: dashing transparent useless brakes that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: Flesh territorial business firm so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Thriller knife masturbator Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Balding Goal In Life Church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Idiotic blathering lay karate faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Thriller knife masturbator Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Thriller knife masturbator They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 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...id.#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Thriller knife masturbator (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: house-broken bearded mental disorder dilemma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Aphrodisiac chrome ape elastic band science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: pale sexy market patrolman cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Carnelian trump supporter moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2...id.#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: carmine school cafeteria boltzmann 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...id.#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...id.#49802525) |