[ SECRET POST #3617 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3617 ⌋

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words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[ginainthekingsroad]

I used to get condone/condemn confused a lot.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[sparrow_lately]

I thought "dubious" meant "joyful" for a few years.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

that's adorable

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I can actually see that!

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[dancingmouse]

I get Deprived and Depraved confused sometimes.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I'm depraved on account of I'm deprived!

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I used to thing "chagrin" meant something close to "sardonic" - idk why.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I read "rare" in the context of something close to "odd" once (IIRC it was something like "Mary Sue was a rare person") and for years I thought that's what it meant. Still not sure if I misread it (I was very young) or if the writer misused it. O_o

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[kamino_neko]

Sounds more like a euphemism than either.

Neither, really.

[(Anonymous)]

Rare can be used that way - as something uncommon or unusual, I think that usage may be slightly more common in Britain. But since rare can also mean excellent or fine in quality, I see how it could be confusing.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I thought "twat" was another way of saying "twit."

Also, you know how people say "I could care less" when it should be "couldn't"? I knew that it should be, but I thought the phrase really was "couldn't care less." In other words, I thought it was just a grammatically incorrect expression.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I *is* really supposed to be "couldn't care less."

I thought the same thing about "twat."

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I though "fulminating" meant something similar to "seething." Actually it means a violent explosion.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

When I was young, ambivalent used to mean like...you don't have any strong thoughts in either direction. Then I came across it being used in a way that didn't make sense, so I looked it up, and the dictionary said it meant that you can't choose between two opposing sides. Which is sort of similar, I guess, but not exactly the same thing. Then a few years later for some reason I ended up looking it up again, and the definition had changed back to what it was originally. Now, it's back to the second one.

I can't imagine they just changed the meaning of the word multiple times, but I swear it's had two different meanings. Or maybe I'm just insane. : /

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

Probably, it can habe both of those meanings and it just depends on who you ask.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought "moot" meant something was no longer relevant due to some change circumstances, like "I was trying to decide if the chip in my windshield was fixable, but that's moot now because a rock hit me today and now the whole windshield is cracked and needs to be replaced." I swear this is how I always heard it used. Like, "The subject has been rendered moot" is a thing people say to mean the the topic is irrelevant and need not be discussed.

Then I started playing crossword puzzles on this crossword app where "moot" kept turning up as the answer to clues like "up for debate." The puzzles seemed like they might not have been created for American English, so I thought "maybe this is the British meaning of 'moot'" but I looked it up, and the crossword was right.

My actual, physical dictionary backs me up in that it says "Usage Nore: As an adjective moot has come to be widely used to mean 'no longer important, irrelevant.' This usage may be originally the result ofa misinterpretation of its legal sense..." Google and dictionary.com don't seem to accept this.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[sarillia]

I've heard both meanings. The "not relevant" one seems to be the more common one. It looks like the "up for debate" one has become mostly arcane legal terminology.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[kamino_neko]

I had surfeit reversed for the longest time. I still can't really process that it means excess, not lack, therefor I hate it.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[diet_poison]

"Bemused". I thought it meant something like "puzzled but also entertained", like the way you react to something incomprehensible but cute that a little kid says. I assume this probably completely because it sounds like "amused". I guess it's actually more along the lines of "really fucking confused" but I can't quite get my brain to accept that.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was what you thought it was.

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

According to merriam webster online it can mean both!

horny vs. corny

[(Anonymous)]

For years, I thought "horny" was like saying "corny".

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[sadiesockmonkey]

In the sixth grade, I thought obsolete was comparable in meaning to exquisite or advanced.

Let's just say that little mix up got me in a whole lot of trouble surrounding a Christmas thank you letter that year.

(The response letter/my dad's furious reaction made me cry. In my defense, my dad, the published author, proofread that letter before it was sent to his brother & he didn't catch it, so it's on him. Meanwhile, my sixth grade history teacher will never know that I meant the opposite of obsolete when I used it to describe some historical invention.)

Re: words that you thought you meant something else

[(Anonymous)]

I thought sensual meant YOU liked to touch things. Like, enjoying textures and stuff.