Brave of you to post this
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Go away with that attitude.
Oh nooooo someone called someone else stupid on the internet. Quick! We must don our white knight armour at the soonest to defend that poor defenseless specimen.
If you haven’t noticed there’s a lot of negativity on this platform, your comment included. It really needs to change.
.> tells someone to go away
.> “there’s a lot of negativity on this platform”
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Overlooks that was to someone that called someone dense and that I specified “with that attitude”. 😬 Just like I called out your comment. This is not a paradox of intolerance.
And a quick look at your profile shows that you are rife with those kind of comments.
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Once you get a handle on inside out you can check out this ok go song
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Now explain why some people are “down for things” while others are “up for it”
Why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway? What is the deal?
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I never watch linked videos but this one was worth it.
Walking backwards is also called “penis-side butt” in some languages.
Well, yeah. That’s… how words work?
“Right-side up”
Thank God, another stupid person like me. We are strong in numbers.
This reminds me of the time I had a co-worker tell me “That’s why they call it ‘work’. 'Cause you’re working!”
I mean it’s more that it’s “working” because it’s “work”
This legitimately made me gasp. I feel stupid i didn’t realise this.
Always funny to see native speakers discover trivial facts about their language
Took me until high school to realize bonjour=bon jour=good day. My brain just about exploded. Worldview destroyed.
Holy shit does that mean that inside out means the inside is out? 🤯
Wonder if OP thinks “right side up” means the left side is down
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How else would one interpret it?
It’s not really that I interpret it in another way, but I never really thought about the structure of the word 😅
Ha same
I’ve definitely had a similar feeling with band names and brand names, etc. You’re just so used to hearing them that they are their own thing without being the component words that the name contains.
Go further. For example, people say ‘gypped’ without knowing it’s a pejorative reference to the word ‘Gypsy’ which is itself a pejorative of the Romani.
My favorite recently is sophist from the pejorative Platonic definition. It really puts words like sophisticated in a different etymological light and subtle contextual meaning.
What’s sophist mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist_(dialogue)
Fake but convincing by argument, gaslighting, etc., generally by someone in a position like a professor, a judge, or a politician.
And the Egyptians, too!
I remember learning this about 20ish years ago and telling my then-sister in law about it when I explained why I wasn’t going to use it anymore. I got told I had a stick up my ass, and this was by a marginalized (gay, immigrant) woman. (Somewhat unrelated note - very grateful she’s a former relation.)
So glad people have been learning and I’ve been hearing “gypped” less and less in recent years.
Some words have simply entered common use and become decoupled from their former meaning. Maybe your acquaintance was right.
Seems like Orwell was right
Watching my own language means my “acquaintance” was right? I don’t think I’m the one with a stick, if that’s the case.
I’ve had similar realizations about words like “across” and “again”.
I get “across”, but what about again?
“A gain” as in one more. Gain meaning “an increase in amount”
A gain. In addition to.
Yeah, actually I had never thought about the structure of the word either. Thanks for the great shower thought!
I think the pronunciation, specifically the blending of the end of “upside” and beginning of “down”, turns it into one of those compound words that your brain interprets as an independent word, rather than a combination of its composite parts.
Unused to wonder if the radio announcers that are always reciting the station call letters found that the letters stopped sounding like individual sounds, and the whole recitation became a sort of “word” for them. Like “You’re listening to 102.9FM WBLM!” Did it stop being “double-you bee ell emm,” and turn into more of a mashup of “dubbleyabeeyelmm”?
True, the difference is pretty subtle, especially to a listener, but I wonder strange things sometimes…
As a fellow wonderer of strange things, all I have to say is keep wondering, my friend :)
I think this is the case for a lot of words. It ceases to be a combination of words and it’s just one word. Then in the shower you break it down and ohhh.
Downside up?
Down on the upside
Yes! So glad someone else though of this 😎
