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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: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 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: Dull bisexual gunner Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 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: Beta space therapy 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=2E#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 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: Beta space therapy 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: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 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 9:23 PM Author: Odious den inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: appetizing slimy mexican jew (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 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=2E#43974475) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: Aromatic godawful son of senegal potus that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: bull headed sadistic point organic girlfriend so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Swollen titillating marketing idea boistinker faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Ruddy free-loading foreskin cuckoldry Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Ruddy free-loading foreskin cuckoldry They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 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=2E#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Ruddy free-loading foreskin cuckoldry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Beta space therapy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: multi-colored turdskin moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: painfully honest ivory gaming laptop 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=2E#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=2E#49802525) |