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Suspicious ,

Fat chance is a sarcastic phrase, so they don’t actually have the same literal meaning

TheGreenGolem ,
lugal ,

Fun fact: awful and awesome used to be synonyms

moistclump ,

Antiautonyms! people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/…/antiauto.html

Or contronyms. I don’t funny understand the delineation between the two.

darcy ,
@darcy@sh.itjust.works avatar

one is just said sarcastically

confluence ,

You can make profit on and profit off

andrew ,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

I could build on your point or build off of it.

Hamartiogonic ,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

But if you’re hardly working, you’re not working hard.

EmoDuck ,

Alarms can go off and be turned off

intensely_human ,

Yup. And one means it via sarcasm.

Synthead ,

Yeah, with this argument, “excellent” and “terrible” means the same thing.

PrettyBlackDress ,
@PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com avatar

Not when you have a slim Jim

swab148 ,
@swab148@lemm.ee avatar

I tried eating a Fat Jim but then I got banned from Grindr

PrettyBlackDress ,
@PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com avatar

🤣

Cableferret ,

I’ve always loved Mace Windu telling someone “your chances come in two sizes: slim and fat” in an old Star Wars Novell called Shatterpoint.

Strayce ,

If you’re up for something, or down for something, it means the same thing.

If you fill in a form or fill out a form, it means the same thing.

English is fucked.

Aurenkin ,

Don’t forget you might already be in the right place and don’t need to go up or down. Then you can say you’re “there for something”

Chriszz ,

Think about filling in a form, though. Filling in a form—“to fill” is unambiguous. In/out isn’t even necessary when you think about it. “I’m going to fill a form” means the same thing too.

Strayce ,

I feel like you’re technically correct, but saying “fill a form” just sounds weird to a native English speaker.

s1ndr0m3 ,

The alarm went off, so I turned it off.

ezures ,

Also try this inflammable table with flammable chairs.

lord_ryvan ,

I hate this one, it confuses Dutch people from time to time, so they think “inflammable” means “fire resistant”.

Extra scary when there’s only an English-language warning on this

someguy3 ,

I guess fat chance is said sarcastically.

seitanic ,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’ve never not heard it said sarcastically.

PetDinosaurs , (edited )

Now, I expect to be down voted.

I don’t care, but I’m going to piss a lot of people off.

I say “I could care less”.

That’s sarcasm. It’s what my nineties, heroin chic, grunge music adolescence gave me.

I could care less. It would just require that I make an effort. That’s not caring less. That’s caring about something.

It’s like how the biggest homophobes always seem to be closeted. They care too much.

topscientist ,

With you 100%

Aurenkin ,

You think “could care less” is actually legit? Fat chance!

hemmes ,

You think it isn’t? Slim chance!

thisbenzingring ,

I only down voted you, so you’d be right 👍

Nekobambam ,

I remember we used to say “like I could care less” sarcastically back in the late 80s. I moved to a non-English speaking country in ‘89 so I have no idea when “I could care less” shifted from sarcasm to incorrect grammar, but I was surprised the first time I encountered people online mention it as a grammatical pet peeve.

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    cmhickman358 ,

    I’m never quite sure what it says about me that I find David Mitchell the most relatable person on television.

    Strayce ,

    There are words and phrases in English that get used sarcastically so often they lose their original meaning. There is a word for this and I swear I’ve seen a whole list somewhere but my google fu is weak today.

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  • Hamartiogonic ,
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    Schizo and psycho are a bit different, because they involve shortening the words.

    thisbenzingring ,

    Semantic satiation?

    Firefly7 ,
    @Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    No - semantic satiation is when you read or hear a word so much in a short timeframe that it stops feeling like a real word, and briefly feels like just a jumble of letters/sounds.

    hemmes ,

    Row•ads, that is a freaky word

    Cethin ,

    I hate semantic satiation. It happens all the time while programming for me. I’ll have a variable name with some common word and, after typing it a few times my brain just stops recognizing it as a real word. This sometimes sends me into etymology dives to figure out why the word “jump” (or whatever) looks so strange.

    GarytheSnail ,
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    There’s a fat chance you’re gonna be eating those words.

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