Shhh! Nobody tell them about "inside out."
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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Don't tell them about insid-- dang! Too late
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 😅
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.
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.
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I’ve had similar realizations about words like “across” and “again”.
Yeah, actually I had never thought about the structure of the word either. Thanks for the great shower thought!
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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...
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Wait until you find out “bottoms up” isn’t about a group of people taking an elevator to get mimosas
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Good grief...
The opposite of "upside down" is not "downside up", but "right-side up".
The opposite of "right-side up" is not "left-side down", but "upside down".
Ladies, gentlemen, and all in between. The English language.
The up side is the right side. The down side is the wrong side. Quite logical to me
You've just made it make sense. Have an upvote of my gratitude.
Heh good insight.
(Ps I also have these thoughts about breaking words down (unicorn is uni-corn) and some people get really snarky about it. Don't let bad comments get to you.)
In-sight
Wait until you learn the news is new.
In French, it's also the same origin (nouvelles = news; nouvelle/nouveau = new)
Damnit someone just last week told me it was an acronym for notable events weather and sports but this makes more sense
A good rule of thumb is that any word etymology that is an acronym is probably false if the word is more than 100 years old.
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?
No, it's the opposite!
Oppo-site? Now I'm wondering about everything.
Breakfast = break fast (as in fasting) :)
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Brave of you to post this
The letter W is both called "double-U" and looks like two letter Us combined (in some curvy fonts at least)
In my language it's called double-v, which makes so much more sense to me.
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TIL that people didn't get this. I had a similar situation where I would pronounce unleaded as unleeded
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Walking backwards is also called “penis-side butt” in some languages.
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