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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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: Hairraiser Site 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: Narrow-minded Garnet Bawdyhouse 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: Narrow-minded Garnet Bawdyhouse 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: Carnelian Adventurous Puppy Jap 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: Wonderful grizzly lodge 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: contagious property (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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: crawly dark codepig 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: Provocative Claret Halford Sweet Tailpipe 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: Dun Motley People Who Are Hurt French Chef 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: greedy comical elastic band 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: chartreuse infuriating national security agency nursing home (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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: drunken heady degenerate 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 🤔🤔🤔 (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: greedy comical elastic band 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: greedy comical elastic band 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: greedy comical elastic band (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: Narrow-minded Garnet Bawdyhouse (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: Marvelous space doctorate 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: Cyan odious house jewess 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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: Khaki set organic girlfriend 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: scarlet concupiscible crackhouse 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) |