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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
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So, whilst procrastinating from some writing I am not looking forward to, I came across this....
97% people cannot find the common antonym for the following words.
1 Always
2 Coming
3 From
4 Take
5 Me
6 Down
What bit of internet silliness made you smile today?
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Golden Key
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If the survey or whatever was worded that way, people might not have known "antonym", and so didn't know what to do.
I'll keep an eye out for some silliness. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
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Thank you Golden Key.
Firstly for your contribution. And I must say I do say thank you to Siri.
It makes me feel better, and my children roll their eyes.
And secondly for your advice.
I have great faith that our shipmates are aware that antonym refers to a word opposite in meaning...
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Huia
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quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
I have great faith that our shipmates are aware that antonym refers to a word opposite in meaning...
Yeah, but we am intelligent and edumacated.
Huia
PS, loved the polite Granny. I could just see my Mum doing something like this.
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Galloping Granny
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quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
Thank you Golden Key.
Firstly for your contribution. And I must say I do say thank you to Siri.
It makes me feel better, and my children roll their eyes.
And secondly for your advice.
I have great faith that our shipmates are aware that antonym refers to a word opposite in meaning...
It would be difficult to imagine that 97% didn't know what an antonym was. Whom did they ask? Primary school kids and pre-schoolers?
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Golden Key
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Yes, many/most Shipmates will probably know "antonym". But it's not a part of common, everyday speech, so people (Shipmates and landlubbers) may have it tucked a way in a dusty corner of their mental attic.
I was just curious about how the study/survey was worded.
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Kaplan Corday
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quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
97% people cannot find the common antonym for the following words.
Which is hardly surprising, given the ambiguity of the question.
It should read: "find A common antonym for EACH OF the following words".
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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I wonder what the responses would have been if they had asked for 'opposite' rather than 'antonym'.
Moo
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balaam
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Originally posted by Patdys:
Are you sure Kaplan? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
In which case, why not solve it for us?
For each of the words.
But Me does not have an antonym.
There isn't a word for anything that is not me. Those who think the antonym is You are wrong.
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
RooK-Annoyer
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I'm sorry.
I will go back to my writing now.
(more clearly, in this case)
This was a bit of fun that made me chuckle when I worked through it.
No it's not grammatically correct.
No, the definitions are inaccurate.
It's not meant to be a serious piece of prose.
It is a brief mindless distraction.
Yes, it was silly.
But it made me laugh when I worked it out, damn it.
My only hope is that you are all winding me up.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Doone
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quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
I'm sorry.
I will go back to my writing now.
(more clearly, in this case)
This was a bit of fun that made me chuckle when I worked through it.
No it's not grammatically correct.
No, the definitions are inaccurate.
It's not meant to be a serious piece of prose.
It is a brief mindless distraction.
Yes, it was silly.
But it made me laugh when I worked it out, damn it.
My only hope is that you are all winding me up.
Cheered me up a bit at a lousy time
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Uncle Pete
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A wee bit of warped thinking tells me that the antonym of me is no one
ymmv. If no one knows what antonym means, they have no vcblry at all.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Mr and Mrs O'Nym and their pet Formicidae Ant O'Nym.
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Og, King of Bashan
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I will admit that I had to google the antonym for "from". (Edit- whoops, I typed the antonym first time!)
I will also admit it took me quite a while to get the joke. Maybe had I been writing them down rather than just thinking them out?
At any rate, you got me.
[ 18. June 2016, 17:45: Message edited by: Og, King of Bashan ]
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Landlubber
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quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
... it's not a part of common, everyday speech, so people (Shipmates and landlubbers) may have it tucked a way in a dusty corner of their mental attic...
this Landlubber clings to her dictionary
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Jane R
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Galloping Granny: quote:
It would be difficult to imagine that 97% didn't know what an antonym was. Whom did they ask? Primary school kids and pre-schoolers?
You underestimate our children. By Year 6 (end of primary school in the UK) they should all know what an antonym is, according to the National Curriculum for English, whereas older people who were at school in the 1970s and early 80s are much less likely to know. Explicitly teaching grammar was out of fashion then (except in foreign language classes).
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Aravis
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I didn't know what an antonym was until I worked it out from the context.
I have a degree in English from a prestigious university.
My generation wasn't taught much grammar.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
... And I must say I do say thank you to Siri ...
When my mum, who was a little older than the granny in the story, got a stove with a timer on it, always used to thank it when it buzzed, and I have to confess the habit has rubbed off on me.
PS I had to Google what "Siri" was. Thanks, Google.
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Stetson
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quote:
Originally posted by Aravis:
I didn't know what an antonym was until I worked it out from the context.
I have a degree in English from a prestigious university.
My generation wasn't taught much grammar.
Don't feel bad. I teach ESL, and I'd say at least half the time, when explaining grammar, I can't name the exact rule that I'm teaching, just that this is how it's supposed to be written. For example...
"Christians, who hate children, need to refelct upon the example of their own saviour."
I would tell my class that unless the point is to say that ALL Christians hate children, the two commas should should be removed from that sentence. But I couldn't give the names of the grammatical items involved(some sort of "clause", I'd imagine, but that's just a vague guess).
As for the original survey, I suspect the point was to get an many respondents as possible saying they were unable to complete the task. Otherwise, the question would have just used the far more everyday word "opposite".
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Stetson
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Ah, I just worked out the joke. The effect of the punchline kinda depends on someone knowing the original meme.
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