Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Vocabulary Gap
Maybe it's just me or maybe it's the English language but I found myself stuck for a word today: one whose definition is "inadvertently saying the exact opposite of what you mean". We have words for doing it deliberately - "sarcasm" for example - but I can't think of any for doing it without meaning to. I think such a word would be useful (malapropism and parapraxis don't really cut it).
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Word Verification can be useful in supplying new words to fill the gaps.
ReplyDeleteeg: tyfor
larfandl
cytoned
axintste (though I'm not sure how to pronounce this one)