Shhh! Nobody tell them about “inside out.”
Don’t tell them about insid-- dang! Too late
How else would one interpret it?
It’s not really that I interpret it in another way, but I never really thought about the structure of the word 😅
Go further. For example, people say ‘gypped’ without knowing it’s a pejorative reference to the word ‘Gypsy’ which is itself a pejorative of the Romani.
My favorite recently is sophist from the pejorative Platonic definition. It really puts words like sophisticated in a different etymological light and subtle contextual meaning.
What’s sophist mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist_(dialogue)
Fake but convincing by argument, gaslighting, etc., generally by someone in a position like a professor, a judge, or a politician.
I remember learning this about 20ish years ago and telling my then-sister in law about it when I explained why I wasn’t going to use it anymore. I got told I had a stick up my ass, and this was by a marginalized (gay, immigrant) woman. (Somewhat unrelated note - very grateful she’s a former relation.)
So glad people have been learning and I’ve been hearing “gypped” less and less in recent years.
Some words have simply entered common use and become decoupled from their former meaning. Maybe your acquaintance was right.
Watching my own language means my “acquaintance” was right? I don’t think I’m the one with a stick, if that’s the case.
Seems like Orwell was right
And the Egyptians, too!
I’ve had similar realizations about words like “across” and “again”.
I get “across”, but what about again?
“A gain” as in one more. Gain meaning “an increase in amount”
A gain. In addition to.
Yeah, actually I had never thought about the structure of the word either. Thanks for the great shower thought!
Ha same
I’ve definitely had a similar feeling with band names and brand names, etc. You’re just so used to hearing them that they are their own thing without being the component words that the name contains.
I think the pronunciation, specifically the blending of the end of “upside” and beginning of “down”, turns it into one of those compound words that your brain interprets as an independent word, rather than a combination of its composite parts.
Unused to wonder if the radio announcers that are always reciting the station call letters found that the letters stopped sounding like individual sounds, and the whole recitation became a sort of “word” for them. Like “You’re listening to 102.9FM WBLM!” Did it stop being “double-you bee ell emm,” and turn into more of a mashup of “dubbleyabeeyelmm”?
True, the difference is pretty subtle, especially to a listener, but I wonder strange things sometimes…
As a fellow wonderer of strange things, all I have to say is keep wondering, my friend :)
I think this is the case for a lot of words. It ceases to be a combination of words and it’s just one word. Then in the shower you break it down and ohhh.
Downside up?
Down on the upside
Yes! So glad someone else though of this 😎
Wait until you find out “bottoms up” isn’t about a group of people taking an elevator to get mimosas
Get your bottom in that elevator and take it up to the bar
Good grief…
The opposite of “upside down” is not “downside up”, but “right-side up”.
The opposite of “right-side up” is not “left-side down”, but “upside down”.
Ladies, gentlemen, and all in between. The English language.
The up side is the right side. The down side is the wrong side. Quite logical to me
You’ve just made it make sense. Have an upvote of my gratitude.
Heh good insight.
(Ps I also have these thoughts about breaking words down (unicorn is uni-corn) and some people get really snarky about it. Don’t let bad comments get to you.)
In-sight
https://kbin.social/m/Etymology could use some more love!
Where’s the bot that links this as a community when you need’em.
Wait until you learn the news is new.
Damnit someone just last week told me it was an acronym for notable events weather and sports but this makes more sense
A good rule of thumb is that any word etymology that is an acronym is probably false if the word is more than 100 years old.
In French, it’s also the same origin (nouvelles = news; nouvelle/nouveau = new)
Now explain why some people are “down for things” while others are “up for it”
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Why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway? What is the deal?
Is this what we call being dense?
Go away with that attitude.
Oh nooooo someone called someone else stupid on the internet. Quick! We must don our white knight armour at the soonest to defend that poor defenseless specimen.
If you haven’t noticed there’s a lot of negativity on this platform, your comment included. It really needs to change.
.> tells someone to go away
.> “there’s a lot of negativity on this platform”
😬
Overlooks I that to someone that called dense and that I specified “with that attitude”. 😬 Just like I called out your comment. This is not a paradox of intolerance.
And a quick look at your profile shows that you are rife with those kind of comments.
🚪🚶♂️
No, it’s the opposite!
Downside up?
And round and round
Oppo-site? Now I’m wondering about everything.
Wait, what is the opposite?
contrary
umopapisdn
Breakfast = break fast (as in fasting) :)
Brave of you to post this
Thank God, another stupid person like me. We are strong in numbers.
This reminds me of the time I had a co-worker tell me “That’s why they call it ‘work’. 'Cause you’re working!”
I mean it’s more that it’s “working” because it’s “work”