Words that sound like they have meaning but don’t.
posted by Andrew Simone in dear clusterflock, language | * | 24 comments
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I’ll start us off with two: ‘inherent’ (as in, e.g., ‘inherently evil’) and ‘innovation.’
That’s a good one. It makes me think go sub-questions, or questions that relate indirectly: words that don’t sound like what they mean (limpid). And words that are only ever used in relation to another word (kind of like your example).
Special
Value ad.
Heuristics.
Nice. Okay. Yeah.
Objective/relative truth
Interesting
Fun.
Intuitive
Substantial.
I use substantial all the time, but you’re right.
Chorley.
happiness?
leverage (as a verb)
Go
“…moving forward…”, “Absolutely!”, “Federal Reserve”, “…neither here nor there…”, “doable”
ecstasy
earmark
contingency
marketing
how’s it goin’?
reinvent
overkill
love affair
Context
quality, virtue, meaning, consciousness, life, good, morality, existence
in no particular order.
actualize
ka-blammo
Cromulent
“Andrew Simone.”
Siri, text Andrew Simone and tell him he doesn’t exist.
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I’ll start us off with two: ‘inherent’ (as in, e.g., ‘inherently evil’) and ‘innovation.’
That’s a good one. It makes me think go sub-questions, or questions that relate indirectly: words that don’t sound like what they mean (limpid). And words that are only ever used in relation to another word (kind of like your example).
Special
Value ad.
Heuristics.
Nice. Okay. Yeah.
Objective/relative truth
Interesting
Fun.
Intuitive
Substantial.
I use substantial all the time, but you’re right.
Chorley.
happiness?
leverage (as a verb)
Go
“…moving forward…”, “Absolutely!”, “Federal Reserve”, “…neither here nor there…”, “doable”
ecstasy
earmark
contingency
marketing
how’s it goin’?
reinvent
overkill
love affair
Context
quality, virtue, meaning, consciousness, life, good, morality, existence
in no particular order.
actualize
ka-blammo
Cromulent
“Andrew Simone.”
Siri, text Andrew Simone and tell him he doesn’t exist.
Siri says she’d be glad to.
Did you, like, get your phone?