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BambiBoi -> Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 2:20:30 AM)

There's a perfect word that means "to treat two different things as the same." It's one word, and I think it has an in- or dis- or mis- prefix.

It's killing me inside that I can't recall. [sm=anger.gif]



BambiBoi -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 2:28:59 AM)

EQUIVOCATE!

Ah man... That was better than sex. Whew.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equivocate



GreedyTop -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 3:18:58 AM)

LOL!!!!!



PeonForHer -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 4:56:50 AM)

Eh? That's not the word you're after - "Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information" [WordWeb.info] Maybe 'equate'?



LaTigresse -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 8:29:30 AM)


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ORIGINAL: BambiBoi

There's a perfect word that means "to treat two different things as the same." It's one word, and I think it has an in- or dis- or mis- prefix.

It's killing me inside that I can't recall. [sm=anger.gif]


I hate when that happens. Usually in two languages.



BambiBoi -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 9:47:24 AM)


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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

Eh? That's not the word you're after - "Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information" [WordWeb.info] Maybe 'equate'?


The common definition of equivocate is accurate, but does not do that magic word justice. An equivocation is being deliberately ambiguous or unclear regarding two similar, but in fact different traits, to mislead people. To interchange "criminal" and "arrested" is an equivocation that suggests all arrested people are guilty.

MMMPH! Good word. I need a smoke.



MistressDarkArt -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 1:32:27 PM)

My first thought was 'disparate'...but that means 'different things'.



PeonForHer -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 2:24:45 PM)


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ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt

My first thought was 'disparate'...but that means 'different things'.


I thought that was to do with being rude about someone's pet bird.

(Well, please yourselves. I'm buggered if I can come up with anything more amusing tonight. I'm off to buy some plonk and get trolleyed. Bollocks to everything.)



BambiBoi -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 3:11:09 PM)


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ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt

My first thought was 'disparate'...but that means 'different things'.


Also a good one. Right now my favorite word is specious. It means a seemingly plausible or attractive argument that is in actuality flawed. I'm waiting to slip it into a post. Just one of those games I play with myself. I said "I play with myself."

Another game was to talk about playing with myself three times in a three line post.



PeonForHer -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 3:36:02 PM)

My favourite word is 'sequacious'. In rare usage, but surprisingly so since it conveys such a useful idea: it means 'inclined to follow'.

However, of course it would have little use on these forums because everyone here always his or her unique take on any given matter.



TNDommeK -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 3:45:37 PM)

I like the word vivacious..means very lively. Oooh Oooh and "plethora".



PeonForHer -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 4:02:37 PM)

What about words we can't stand?

Top of the list at present for me is 'intoxicating'. I don't know why, but it boils my scrotum to molten lava when I see this word - generally used by women about a particular man's sensitive nostrils, eyelashes, the angle of his gentle and poetic earlobes, or some other such utterly wince-inducing piffle.

Why do women have to turn the fact of their having the hots for a given man into something like art appreciation? When a man fancies a woman, he doesn't feel the need to make out like he's got a frigging higher doctorate in aesthetic philosophy in order to express it. Jesus. Sometimes women can be so bloody anal.

Where was I? Oh yes, I was ranting. That's where I was.

Carry on.



LadyHibiscus -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 4:04:22 PM)

Darling? Who have you been talking to?



PeonForHer -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 4:11:42 PM)


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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

Darling? Who have you been talking to?


Mad women. Too many of them. Mad, mad women, everywhere, being mad.

I've resolved that, tonight, I'm going to talk crap all over the forums. Take no notice. [;)]



LadyHibiscus -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 4:13:22 PM)

Hm. [>:]



PeonForHer -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 4:35:26 PM)

'Hm' what? What's that supposed to mean? Stop being profound and stuff, Lady Hib!



LadyHibiscus -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 6:05:43 PM)

[8|] Hmph.



RemoteUser -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 6:19:56 PM)

I use the words 'just' and 'so' too often. I blame Rudyard Kipling.

I do like a few words, chief among them "eloquent". One I take to heart for non-linguistic love is, "home". Words that make a scene in your head all of their own accord are always welcome to my ears.



PeonForHer -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 7:56:31 PM)

If I've drunk a lot of bad cider, I can belch the word 'Robespierre'. Normally I can only manage the words 'roast' or 'whelks', however. Or 'rissoles' if I'm on moderately cheap lager.




thelandedgentry -> RE: Word at the tip of my tongue... (8/11/2012 8:08:45 PM)

hah, I was thinking 'double entendre' -- one of my favorites



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