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Thread: Scare quote dictionary
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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Posted
This is a thread to allow us to note the difference in meaning a word is given by enclosing it in scare quotes.
Inspired by some posts in Hell, so I'm going to start by posting the definition of "debacle"posted there:
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
de·ba·cle
diˈbakəl,-ˈbäkəl/
noun
Meaning: One cannot defend one's position so then leaves pretending the moral high ground.
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Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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And, another that most people know, from the same thread:
"flounce"
The act of leaving for a short time, while making a big show of never coming back.
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Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Another one from that same quote mine:
"it"
Term used to indicate one is waving a hanky goodbye while hoping those being left will beg them to come back.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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lilBuddha
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# 14333
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F-bomb
Noun
A substitute word used by those perfectly will to tear the ever-loving shit out of a fellow human being, but are too precious to swear.
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I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
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Leorning Cniht
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# 17564
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"Popular" = liked by uncultured philistines.
"Contemporary" = anything produced since the death of Queen Victoria
"Christian Music" = the playlist of my favourite "Christian Radio" station.
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Porridge
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# 15405
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"pushed" = goaded
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Spiggott: Everything I've ever told you is a lie, including that.
Moon: Including what?
Spiggott: That everything I've ever told you is a lie.
Moon: That's not true!
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Sioni Sais
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"allegedly" = actually, but we want to stay out of the courts.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Higgs Bosun
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# 16582
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"evangelical" - David Cameron
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Rev per Minute
Shipmate
# 69
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
"Christian Music" = the playlist of my favourite "Christian Radio" station.
Or "Christian music" = Christian "music" <> music
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"Allons-y!" "Geronimo!" "Oh, for God's sake!" The Day of the Doctor
At the end of the day, we face our Maker alongside Jesus. RIP ken
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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quote:
Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
"Christian Music" = the playlist of my favourite "Christian Radio" station.
Or "Christian music" = Christian "music" <> music
Or Songs that are neither Christian nor music.
Biblical inerrancy = the assumption that the Bible means what I say it means, no more, no less.
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
"allegedly" = actually, but we want to stay out of the courts.
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
# 182
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"Bless you" = fuck off.
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Keeping fit was an obsession with Fr Moity .... He did chin ups in the vestry, calisthenics in the pulpit, and had developed a series of Tai-Chi exercises to correspond with ritual movements of the Mass. The Antipope Robert Rankin
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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He/She means well=There's nothing else good that can be said about this person.
Moo
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See you later, alligator.
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Arethosemyfeet
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# 17047
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
"IMHO" = "My O is not at all H"
Not usually M either - usually recycled from somewhere else.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
# 13878
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"assisting police with enquiries" = now everyone's going to be convinced that you did it.
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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cattyish
Wuss in Boots
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We've all experienced an "interesting" time at some stage.
Cattyish, may we all have some times which are not "interesting".
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...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Stetson
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"May I ask you a personal question?"
I'm basically just telling you that I'm about to ask you a personal question. Saying "no" is not really an option.
"negative campaigns" (as a politician would complain about)
I really wish my opponents would quit talking about my failed policies.
"not angry, just disappointed"
I'm angry, but don't wanna sound beholden to petty emotions.
[ 05. May 2014, 07:25: Message edited by: Stetson ]
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