Words and their meanings

[elaina]

I just wanted to share a quick insight...I don't know if other people have realized or not...but I think it's very interesting when you take the word raw and spell it backwards you get war. Now THATS interesting......!!!! elaina

[sachis2112]

This actually made me chuckle a little because afterall, dog backwards....
;)

[rawpriestess]

It reminds me of one Bob Newhart show, where Emily, his wife finds out she's got a genious IQ, so she goes to this Genius party with Bob in tow, and they are all having this fun time saying each other's name backwards, so someone comes up to Bob, and he says "Bob", it totally cracked me up with his dead pan way of speaking.

I love the way words can be mispelled or used in different ways,
Evil-devil--add one letter
good-god--subtract one letter

How about when people use the Wrong word, but it's close, and changes the meaning of their intention?

like,"My mom was obvious to the fact. ....." when it should be Oblivious

Or "He was so ominous when he kissed her....." when it should be amourous

Or, "I really love dogs, accept poodles...." when it should be except

I find this sooooooo abusing..... or should that be amusing?

LOL

Got any fun ones?

[asil]

This actually made me chuckle a little because afterall, dog backwards....
;)

Now THAT"S a theology I can believe in! :D :D :D

[Sharon in Colorado]

say *race car* backwards

[sachis2112]

so someone comes up to Bob, and he says "Bob"
OMG that's funny!!!


I find this sooooooo abusing..... or should that be amusing?
I know what you mean. The one that kills me is "irregardless". NOT A WORD!!! To say it this way means with regard rather than without!!!! ARGH. OK... calm now.

Another thing that kills me is when people use words that have been terribly abused and bastardized through time. Take the word "selfish". It simply means interest in one's self. Not the negative connotation that it gets today as in "self-absorbed" or "without regard for others"... or would that be irregardless.... ;)

Another one that gets to me is "decimated". They use it on the news all the time to describe a comepletely destroyed area. But it means to destroy every 10th one. So if you're saying somewhere was decimated, it really wasn't hit that badly I guess.


say *race car* backwards
That's a good one!

[Jackie1995]

I'm loving this!

I have a Riders in the Sky CD, and one of the tracks is a song/snippet of a mythical tv show called "Palindrome" and it's just great.

The "star" of the show says everything in the skit via palindrome.

"Hey, who's that at the bar?" says the bartender.

"Ida" says Palindrome. "No, the other one," says the bartender.

"Dad!" "No, the woman."

"Eve!" "Not her."

"Ava!"

You get the drift. It just totally cracks me up when he says "Tons o snot" (referring to his sinus condition).

Ah, well, that's my two cents!

[Autumn]

My mother is a master at murdering various sayings and cliches. She truly does not know that she is saying them incorrectly, no matter how many times we correct her. A woman who works with her started a notebook that is now filled with "Lorraine-isms". Some examples:

As a child, I was told that I was telling her a "bowl-face lie". For years I thought the world's greatest liars had round faces.

Something difficult was "a tough toe to sew" (and undoubtedly quite painful!)

People would often say of couples who had a baby before marriage that they "put the cart before the horse". My mom said, "Put the tart before the horse." (Guess we know what she thought of the woman!)

But one of her all-time best is, "Sperm of the moment."

I just never know what to say about that one!

I guess I picked up some of this when I was young, too. I remember calling my brother (out loud, in the middle of the mall) a little "twat". My mom turned beat red and said, "That's TOT!!!!!"

[RawTruth]

But one of her all-time best is, "Sperm of the moment."

I just never know what to say about that one!

I guess I picked up some of this when I was young, too. I remember calling my brother (out loud, in the middle of the mall) a little "twat". My mom turned beat red and said, "That's TOT!!!!!"

Oh my. Hilarious! I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!!!Thank you, thank you.

[kiwikid78]

I know what you mean. The one that kills me is "irregardless". NOT A WORD!!! To say it this way means with regard rather than without!!!! ARGH. OK... calm now.

One that gets me is when people say conversate, instead of converse. Grrrr, Uber annoying :o .

[rawpriestess]

How about, I could care less. When of course, they mean I couldn't care less
meaning that they care so littel about it, that there is no "less" they COULD care.

and then there's the old mispronounciaton, like often, the "T" is silent. My god, I want to shout this out to the world.

and aunt, is pronounced ant, not ONT, like "hot", and Caribean, is like CARE-i-be-ann, not car-IBY "n".

Then I love to mix words with other words, today I was at a client's business, who had purchased one of my paintings, it was hanging in the bathroom, and when they introduced me to one of their employees, they introduced me as the artist who is doing the outside mural, the one who did the painting that is hanging in the bathroom. The employee, said, I never saw any painting in the bathroom, all I ever saw was a urinal.

So, I said, yes, I will be painting the outside Murinal for you.

And of course, they all gave me what I was looking for, the entire office cracked up.

[sachis2112]

Mwahahaha!! Woo, you guys are a hoot! How about this one. To describe the philosophy of conservatives. People say conservitism. But conservitism is what a CONSERVATINALIST is about. What CONSERVITIVES are about is CONSERVITIVISM.