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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| citrine locus half-breed | 02/15/22 |
| diverse area foreskin | 02/15/22 |
| citrine locus half-breed | 02/15/22 |
| comical slimy dragon parlour | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: citrine locus half-breed 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: diverse area foreskin 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: comical slimy dragon parlour 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: comical slimy dragon parlour 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: aqua sneaky criminal 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: Cerebral ceo 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: Wonderful ruddy orchestra pit weed whacker (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: citrine locus half-breed 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: aphrodisiac point 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: Vibrant indian lodge mad-dog skullcap 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: Avocado Aromatic Chapel 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: jet ticket booth cuckoldry 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: stubborn stirring site azn (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: citrine locus half-breed 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: Titillating rehab goyim 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: citrine locus half-breed 🤔🤔🤔 (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: jet ticket booth cuckoldry 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: jet ticket booth cuckoldry 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: jet ticket booth cuckoldry (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: comical slimy dragon parlour (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: Chartreuse razzmatazz shrine multi-billionaire 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: Gold useless feces 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: citrine locus half-breed 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: Translucent nursing home 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: citrine locus half-breed 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) |