Linguistic curiosities

anon5266188 · 2017-09-15T11:32:37.551Z

You can “pop” to the shops, once you “pop” you can’t stop when it comes to Pringles, you can “pop” a balloon even though it makes a bang noise but you “burst” a bubble despite the fact that it makes a “pop” noise

anon67149139 · 2017-09-15T11:34:31.029Z

just good pop

anon5266188 · 2017-09-15T11:35:11.553Z

This is also true

foppyish · 2017-09-15T11:36:06.099Z

slow up/slow down

hip_young_gunslinger · 2017-09-15T11:39:05.869Z

Don’t wrestlers “pop”, or get a pop, or something?

chanticleer · 2017-09-15T11:39:40.510Z

en.wikipedia.org

List of linguistic example sentences

The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena. Different types of ambiguity which are possible in language. Demonstrations of words which have multiple meanings dependent on context. Demonstrations of ambiguity between alternative syntactic structures underlying a sentence.

Someone recently suggested that their wifi password was 2444666668888888101010101010101010, which when spoken is "one two, three four, five six, seven eight, nine ten’

anon5266188 · 2017-09-15T11:39:46.980Z

Yes, if you are a wrestler you can get a “great pop”

Thank you.

urbanfox · 2017-09-15T11:40:16.233Z

Pop to the shops for a tin of pop

anon5266188 · 2017-09-15T11:41:34.100Z

No, YOU pop to the shops for a tin of pop

marckee · 2017-09-15T11:42:07.915Z

I like auto-antonyms. GBOL:

en.wikipedia.org

Auto-antonym

An auto-antonym or autantonym, also called a contronym or contranym, is a word with multiple meanings (senses) of which one is the reverse of another. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This phenomenon is called enantiosemy, enantionymy or antilogy (enantio- means "opposite"). An enantiosemic term is necessarily polysemic. The terms "autantonym" and "contronym" were coined by Joseph T. Shipley in 1960 and Jack Herring in 1962, respectively. An auto-anton...

Gert · 2017-09-15T11:42:22.003Z

pop a finger up yer bum

anon5266188 · 2017-09-15T11:43:31.878Z

Is “atypical” one of those?

urbanfox · 2017-09-15T11:44:15.564Z

Kallgeese · 2017-09-15T11:45:56.705Z

Alright @2444666668888888101010101010101010