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- From: jws5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JUSTIN WINSLOW SOLONYNKA)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.023957.49839@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 02:39:57 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <8229@skye.ed.ac.uk>, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
- >
- >In article <93019.125917CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu> CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >
- >% An antonym is two words that are spelled the same but have opposite
- >% meanings. No examples exist in English
- >
- >$ No, that's an antelope. An antonym is someone who hasn't got a name.
- >
- >* No, an antelope is when your mom's sister runs off with the postman, and
- >* _Anton Nym_ was an (unsuccessful) musical comedy by Fedor Dostoevski and
- >* Dave Brubeck. The word you want is `antimony'.
- >
- >& Antimony is money you have to pay your ex-wife. You're thinking of
- >& `anemone'. As in "Love your anemones."
- >
- ># You are high. Anemone is when have too many white blood cells I think
- ># you mean "antipathy".
- >
- >+No, antipathy are things you have before your main course in an Italian
- >+restaurant, like spaghtetti carbonara and stuff. Surely you mean
- >+anomaly?
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- You've been smoking rope. Anomaly is what a priest does for a half-hour
- during a Catholic mass. You must mean aesthetically.
-
- sol | see the cat? see the cradle?
- jws5@lehigh.edu
-
- (BTW: not to be un-bizarre, but there _is_ a word in the English language
- whose antonym is itself: cleave.)
-
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