Words that make no sense

Hope1964 · 11-04-2011, 02:55 PM

My husband just used the word 'unpeel' in an email to me. What the heck does that even mean?? Is it even a word?

What other words can you think of that are silly like that?

PBear · 11-04-2011, 03:33 PM

How about "unthaw"? Isn't that freezing something?

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PBear · 11-04-2011, 03:35 PM

And "unpeel" kinda makes sense... An orange has a peel; when you take it off, it's unpeeled. So the verb could be unpeel

Btw, peel is a really silly word on its own...

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Hope1964 · 11-04-2011, 05:10 PM

Yeah, peel is a weird word eh?

How about inflammable.

CantePe · 11-04-2011, 06:58 PM

gurkins and kumquats

On a serious note...(and come on yous all can't say the above out loud and not snicker) eat versus aten (ate-n). Sometimes H mixes up sedation with seduction (I giggle at that when we talk about vet visits for the fur brats...lol I get this picture..oh never mind not here to pervert the innocence of people on this board).

Being a writer some things bother me like the difference between you're and your as well as its and it's or then and than.

I'm also a tech writer and copy editor so it drives me bat poo poo coo coo... lol

that_girl · 11-04-2011, 08:19 PM

My husband's 1st language is Spanish so there are lot of funny things he says.

He gets his Vs and Bs mixed up and I love it. I never correct him because that's rude, he's a grown man, but we have a Ricky/Lucy relationship with our languages. When he's excited, I can't understand him for crap

It's a mix of Spanish and English and even though I know Spanish, I still can't understand him.

joe kidd · 11-04-2011, 08:34 PM

Efforting. I have an employee that uses it. ( can't get anything done on time, he's always efforting).

that_girl · 11-04-2011, 08:35 PM

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Efforting. I have an employee that uses it. ( can't get anything done on time, he's always efforting).

Sounds like my students.

Runs like Dog · 11-05-2011, 09:34 AM

Apartments? They're COMpartments.

We also use "Whobody" and "Anyhow".

Cherry · 11-05-2011, 12:53 PM

Befriend never made sense to me. I think of behead. If you befriend someone, you become their friend. If you behead someone you take their head off. So with that logic, if you befriend someone, shouldn't you be not being their friend, I.e. taking your friendship away? Like taking a head away?
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that_girl · 11-05-2011, 01:48 PM

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Befriend never made sense to me. I think of behead. If you befriend someone, you become their friend. If you behead someone you take their head off. So with that logic, if you befriend someone, shouldn't you be not being their friend, I.e. taking your friendship away? Like taking a head away?
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Very true.

Cherry · 11-05-2011, 03:10 PM

I've always heard that the English language is difficult, perhaps that's just one of those words that is confusing. LOL
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that_girl · 11-05-2011, 03:23 PM

The English language is SOOO ridiculous. It has rules but every rule has an exception.

Teaching English to my 2nd language students is crazy. lol. They follow the "rule" for every word and 1/2 of the words are wrong.

Reading is just as bad.

Tomb, comb, bomb. Home, come...
They should all rhyme based on the "rule". But do they? nope. makes me think of Gallager. lolll

Runs like Dog · 11-05-2011, 06:00 PM

flammable...inflammable mean the same thing.

Triumph · 11-05-2011, 09:50 PM

George Carlin does a great skit about these kinds of things, like when your ready for a flight and the stewardess tells you they are ready to pre-board. What does that mean? To get on before you get on???