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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: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 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: yellow blathering personal credit line Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 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: supple toaster site 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=2ГѓЖ’#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 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: supple toaster site 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: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 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: impressive business firm partner need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Poppy Resort inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Scarlet nighttime turdskin party of the first part (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 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=2ГѓЖ’#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Nofapping karate cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: shimmering station that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: gay concupiscible giraffe so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Vermilion Razzmatazz Gay Wizard Private Investor Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Mahogany crackhouse mood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Glittery Lilac Stead Water Buffalo faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Vermilion Razzmatazz Gay Wizard Private Investor Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Vermilion Razzmatazz Gay Wizard Private Investor They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 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=2ГѓЖ’#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Vermilion Razzmatazz Gay Wizard Private Investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: supple toaster site (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Ultramarine National science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: jet pungent principal's office codepig cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: wild gas station moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: filthy medicated step-uncle's house tank 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=2ГѓЖ’#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=2ГѓЖ’#49802525) |