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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Literally = figuratively because language is fluid and ever-changing. I can't think of another time a word has become its own antonym before, which is kind of neat.
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Literally is used more often to mean "extremely", or "really".
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Ravenfood posted:I can't think of another time a word has become its own antonym before, which is kind of neat. cleave dust oversight awful left sanguine
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Feb 14, 2017 17:14
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joat mon posted:cleave Whoah you're gonna need to give some detail on these.
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Feb 14, 2017 17:19
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joat mon posted:cleave
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SHISHKABOB posted:Whoah you're gonna need to give some detail on these. cleave - Originally two different verbs that had different conjugation patterns that helped keep them separate. One meant to join, the other meant to separate. dust - I dusted (removed stuff from) the nicknacks. I dusted (added stuff to) the counter with flour before I rolled out the pie crust. oversight - The oversight (missing something) occurred because I wasn't exercising enoughgh oversight (watching something closely) awful - Originally meant "full of awe" and used to describe wonderful (full of wonder) things like God, or an overwhelming amount, like an awful responsibility. Also, awful as in terrible. left - Once he left (departed), I was all that was left (remaining) sanguine - bloodythirsty. Also, cheerful, hopeful. This self antonym has its origins in the theory of bodily humors.
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Ravenfood posted:I can't think of another time a word has become its own antonym before, which is kind of neat. Scan
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joat mon posted:cleave - Originally two different verbs that had different conjugation patterns that helped keep them separate. One meant to join, the other meant to separate. Very interesting, especially the dusting one.
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joat mon posted:awful - Originally meant "full of awe" and used to describe wonderful (full of wonder) things like God, or an overwhelming amount, like an awful responsibility. Also, awful as in terrible.
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joat mon posted:cleave - Originally two different verbs that had different conjugation patterns that helped keep them separate. One meant to join, the other meant to separate. Kinda funny how both meanings of Awful can be used to describe this site
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Feb 14, 2017 19:11
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Table (the transitive verb) means two different things
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Feb 14, 2017 19:43
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Congratulations to Gríma son of Gálmód, now officially Chief Counsellor. Very clever man. He will be a star!
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Feb 14, 2017 20:11
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Celeborn. Lothlorien values. NOT our values.
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Shibawanko posted:Celeborn. Lothlorien values. NOT our values. Celeborn has no energy, and he's always wrong. Even Galadriel says he's wrong. Embarrasing. Very bad.
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Gondor has spent too long paying for the defense of Pelargir, Lebennin, Dol Amroth. Allies need to pull their weight!
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A more extensive list of contronyms: sanction means "to allow" and "to prohibit (or punish)" cleave means "to join" (as in "cleave unto") and "to separate or divide" clip means "to attach" and "to separate" (sure looks like clip is a cognate of cleave, doesn't it?) inoculate means "to protect against" and "to infect with" cull means "to select" and "to reject" alight means "to settle onto" and "to dismount from" went off means "to start" and "to stop" (the alarm ~ when the light ~) off means "inside of" and "outside of" (we compress the data ~ the camera) fix means "a solution" and "a problem" (also fixed) cool means "supportive of" and "opposed to" (he was "cool with" the idea; he was "cool to" the idea); sort of a slang usage public means both "public (free)" (in American English) and "private (fee-based)" (in British English) ravel means "to entangle" and "to disentangle" (as does unravel!) [contributed by Tamara Munzner] screen means "to display" (~ a movie) and "to hide" (~ his view) [contributed by Krishnan Sriram] protest means "to object" and "to affirm" (also, protestations) [contributed by Ron Slavecki] cork means "to take out" and "to insert" a cork from a bottle [contributed by David Miller] oversight means a kind of error, and a kind of prevention from error [contributed by Matt Ross] trim means "to remove from" (~ the tree) and "to add to" (~ the Christmas tree) [contributed by Dick Stadler] enjoin means "to direct" and "to forbid" [contributed by Jonathan King] dust means "to remove from" (~ the table) and "to add to" (~ the cake) [contributed by Susan Ramage] clip means "to partition" (~ the paper) and "to join" (~ the papers) [contributed by Sidney Pestka] secrete means "to give off" and "to conceal" [contributed by Matt Antone] rent means "to grant possession in exchange for rent" and "to take and hold under an agreement to pay rent" [contributed by Matt Antone] can means "to save" (~ the peaches) and "to discard" (~ the worker) [contributed by Sylvia Briggs] belie means "To picture falsely; misrepresent: 'He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility' (James Joyce)." and "To show to be false: 'Their laughter belied their outward grief.'" [From dictionary.com; contributed 12/05 by Nick Serafin] stem means "To start or originate" and "To stop or restrain" Contributed 12/07 by Michael Solomon] peruse means "To read in an attentive manner" and "To read in a leisurely manner" Contributed 8/2011 by Wayne Yang] draw means "To bring together" and "To pull apart" as in "Please draw the curtains" Contributed 9/2012 by Rae Langton] Kate Curtis-Mclane contributed a whole pile of self-antonyms: settle means "to move" (the pile ~d) and "to stop moving" (we ~d in) flesh means "to add substance (~ out)" to and "to clean a hide of flesh" seed means "to put seeds in" and "to take seeds out" garnish means "to add something to" or "to take away from (a form of ~ee)" root means "to get something to take root" or "to pull up (root out)" joint means "to combine or attach with a joint" and "to separate (esp. meat) at a joint" snap means "to break into pieces" and "to fasten together" tube means "to insert a tube in" and "to enclose in a tube" reel means "to wind onto" and "to let out from" lease means "to pay for use" and "to be paid for use" water means "to pour water out" and "to take on water" wear means "to last under use" and "to erode under use" weather means "to disintegrate or wear" and "to come through safely, survive" crop means "to plant or grow" and "to cut or harvest" https://people.csail.mit.edu/teller...lfantonyms.html English is weird
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Trin Tragula posted:Gondor has spent too long paying for the defense of Pelargir, Lebennin, Dol Amroth. Allies need to pull their weight! This is literally Boromir, isn't it?
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Trin Tragula posted:Gondor has spent too long paying for the defense of Pelargir, Lebennin, Dol Amroth. Allies need to pull their weight! Shouldn't it be Rohan, Lorien, Dale, rather than constituent parts of Gondor? 
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Sauron's running his country and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have here in Gondor. We Numenoreans have done a lot of killing also, Gandalf, so you know.
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Well done to my team for producing such a moving tribute to the human victims of the fall of Nargothrond. We remember them proudly!
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Galadriel would have been worse.
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Data Graham posted:Galadriel would have been worse. She used a private mirror.
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Gandalf would have won.
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When Dunland sends its people, they're not sending their best.
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We have to erect a fantastic barrier at our borders, the most amazing girdle you've ever seen.
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ar-pharzon the orange
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The concept of 'Morgoth' was created by and for the dwarves of Nogrod to make elven manufactoring un-competitive.
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Annual Prophet posted:ar-pharzon the orange Make Numenor Great Again
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u brexit ukip it posted:Make Numenor Great Again um Numenor is ALREADY great...!
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Elendili! Get him!
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SHISHKABOB posted:um Numenor is ALREADY great...! It'll be greater under President Trump and secretary of state Annatar
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Feb 17, 2017 21:30
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I'm the LEAST anti-Dwarvish person that you've ever seen.
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Talking thrushes are fake news.
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Around dunedain, never refrain.
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VanSandman posted:Around dunedain, never refrain. Listen to that terrible American accent.
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The word "nice" didn't do a complete 180 in its history, but came pretty close:etymonline posted:late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un- (1)) + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c. 1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830).
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"Niceties" are often given a negative connotation! Cool.
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Why even have the Rings if you're not going to use them?
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cptn_dr posted:She used a private mirror. This is so far my favorite one including mine.
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