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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #75 on: July 31, 2016, 01:30:29 PM »
I don't know of anything that fits better either. "Ambiguity" seems to miss the mutual incompatibility of the two interpretations, and "paradox" applies more to situations that are logically impossible.
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #76 on: August 02, 2016, 07:07:01 AM »
I'm currently liking the word "indeterminate", although it also doesn't convey the full sense of what I was talking about.
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #77 on: August 02, 2016, 08:10:26 AM »
Yeah, that's decent but not complete either. It seems like they're all coming at the idea from different angles, but none of them captures it completely.
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #78 on: January 14, 2022, 01:03:06 PM »
It would be good to have a word for anti-antisemitic.
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #79 on: January 14, 2022, 03:23:22 PM »
Yeah, "pro-Semitic" and just "Semitic" don't really have the right meaning.
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #80 on: March 15, 2022, 10:15:54 AM »
TIL that there is a word for small Roman numerals (used in lists and outlines and such): romanette.

That's cute.
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #81 on: March 15, 2022, 10:53:29 AM »
Is there a single adjective for "feeling a sense of belonging"?
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #82 on: March 30, 2022, 12:05:18 AM »
like the vases and pllars, of the drawing that might be a babushka or a snotty socialite.  I like the rabbit duck.  There's probably a fancy word for them.  There was this podcast about them.  Oh, yeah, hidden brain. 
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/both-things-can-be-true/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_vase
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #83 on: March 30, 2022, 08:54:30 AM »
My aunt had a big picture like that in her living room.  It looked like a woman's face if you looked at it, or it looked like a bunch of people standing around looking a a dead person if you looked at it some more.  It kind of went back and forth, and as a little kid, it freaked me the heck out.  Also, it was pretty hideous.  And enormous.
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #84 on: June 22, 2023, 10:39:30 PM »
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Re: Is there a word for that?
« Reply #85 on: July 01, 2023, 11:46:02 PM »
My current employment was the eventual result of rage applying. 

I wonder if I will live long enough to see people thinking "asking" is a pointless gerund.  (I'm a curmudgeon about nominal "ask", but then realized I'm over 50).
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