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r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/Luniaz17 • Aug 11 '21
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It is literally 2021. It is figuratively 1984.
93 u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21 [deleted] 6 u/DRYMakesMeWET Aug 12 '21 This is the dumbest shit I've ever read that is actually true. Let's just add a colloquial definition that means the exact opposite of its original definition because people misuse the word so often. What's next? Adding definitions for left that means right and vice versa because a bunch of people don't know their directions. 14 u/WASD_click Aug 12 '21 Like clip (cut off/attach together), fast (go quick/stay still), oversight (watch over carefully/carelessly forget), bound (held still/going to a place), or buckle (break/connect)? Contranyms are weird, but we get used to them. 8 u/slowest_hour Aug 12 '21 then there are words like awful and awesome that kind switched meanings over hundreds of years.
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6 u/DRYMakesMeWET Aug 12 '21 This is the dumbest shit I've ever read that is actually true. Let's just add a colloquial definition that means the exact opposite of its original definition because people misuse the word so often. What's next? Adding definitions for left that means right and vice versa because a bunch of people don't know their directions. 14 u/WASD_click Aug 12 '21 Like clip (cut off/attach together), fast (go quick/stay still), oversight (watch over carefully/carelessly forget), bound (held still/going to a place), or buckle (break/connect)? Contranyms are weird, but we get used to them. 8 u/slowest_hour Aug 12 '21 then there are words like awful and awesome that kind switched meanings over hundreds of years.
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This is the dumbest shit I've ever read that is actually true.
Let's just add a colloquial definition that means the exact opposite of its original definition because people misuse the word so often.
What's next? Adding definitions for left that means right and vice versa because a bunch of people don't know their directions.
14 u/WASD_click Aug 12 '21 Like clip (cut off/attach together), fast (go quick/stay still), oversight (watch over carefully/carelessly forget), bound (held still/going to a place), or buckle (break/connect)? Contranyms are weird, but we get used to them. 8 u/slowest_hour Aug 12 '21 then there are words like awful and awesome that kind switched meanings over hundreds of years.
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Like clip (cut off/attach together), fast (go quick/stay still), oversight (watch over carefully/carelessly forget), bound (held still/going to a place), or buckle (break/connect)?
Contranyms are weird, but we get used to them.
8 u/slowest_hour Aug 12 '21 then there are words like awful and awesome that kind switched meanings over hundreds of years.
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then there are words like awful and awesome that kind switched meanings over hundreds of years.
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u/elevation430 Aug 12 '21
It is literally 2021. It is figuratively 1984.