Boy do I feel stupid....

[SirChadwick]

Maybe it's because I'm an only child.

My wife and I got into an argument and she told me I didn't understand because I don't have any siblings like her! I laughed and said WTF ever - my Mom is 3 hrs away. She looked at me completely dumbfounded and said SIBLINGS are your brothers or sisters and you have none! I guess I never took the time to look it up until today. Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

 

[keird]

Yeah. For instance, I kept pronouncing moot as mute. I just didn't know.

 

[SirChadwick]

Originally posted by: keird
Yeah. For instance, I kept pronouncing moot as mute. I just didn't know.

Phew I feel a little better now. It's a MUTE point I tell ya, MUTE!!!! LOL.

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Maybe it's because I'm an only child.

My wife and I got into an argument and she told me I didn't understand because I don't have any siblings like her! I laughed and said WTF ever - my Mom is 3 hrs away. She looked at me completely dumbfounded and said SIBLINGS are your brothers or sisters and you have none! I guess I never took the time to look it up until today. Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Are you from WV or KY? That could be a true statement.

 

[SirChadwick]

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Maybe it's because I'm an only child.

My wife and I got into an argument and she told me I didn't understand because I don't have any siblings like her! I laughed and said WTF ever - my Mom is 3 hrs away. She looked at me completely dumbfounded and said SIBLINGS are your brothers or sisters and you have none! I guess I never took the time to look it up until today. Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Are you from WV or KY; that could be a true statement.

Nope, good ol' GEEEORGIIIA. That help? ATL though.

 

[Lamont Burns]

I think for some time early in my teens, I really thought it was called Old Timer's Disease.

 

[CptCrunch]

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Maybe it's because I'm an only child.

My wife and I got into an argument and she told me I didn't understand because I don't have any siblings like her! I laughed and said WTF ever - my Mom is 3 hrs away. She looked at me completely dumbfounded and said SIBLINGS are your brothers or sisters and you have none! I guess I never took the time to look it up until today. Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Are you from WV or KY? That could be a true statement.

heh, I see what you did there

<- from kentucky

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Maybe it's because I'm an only child.

My wife and I got into an argument and she told me I didn't understand because I don't have any siblings like her! I laughed and said WTF ever - my Mom is 3 hrs away. She looked at me completely dumbfounded and said SIBLINGS are your brothers or sisters and you have none! I guess I never took the time to look it up until today. Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Are you from WV or KY; that could be a true statement.

Nope, good ol' GEEEORGIIIA. That help? ATL though.

GA is pretty much the same thing (cue Deliverance banjo)

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: CptCrunch

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Maybe it's because I'm an only child.

My wife and I got into an argument and she told me I didn't understand because I don't have any siblings like her! I laughed and said WTF ever - my Mom is 3 hrs away. She looked at me completely dumbfounded and said SIBLINGS are your brothers or sisters and you have none! I guess I never took the time to look it up until today. Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Are you from WV or KY? That could be a true statement.

heh, I see what you did there

<- from kentucky

Hey your are from Florence Y'All. That's South Cincinnati, just a few minutes from my work.

 

[CptCrunch]

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: CptCrunch

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Maybe it's because I'm an only child.

My wife and I got into an argument and she told me I didn't understand because I don't have any siblings like her! I laughed and said WTF ever - my Mom is 3 hrs away. She looked at me completely dumbfounded and said SIBLINGS are your brothers or sisters and you have none! I guess I never took the time to look it up until today. Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Are you from WV or KY? That could be a true statement.

heh, I see what you did there

<- from kentucky

Hey your are from Florence Y'All. That's South Cincinnati, just a few minutes from my work.

yeap, live close to the government center there in florence, and work at children's hospital

 

[zoiks]

You must not read very much.

 

[Jadow]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Did you suddenly turn 56 overnight? I'd say you spent closer to 99%+ percent of your life not knowing it.

 

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Almost everyone has several words they think they understand the proper meaning of, but get wrong, sometimes exactly wrong. The problem is that with most of these words, we don't that we got it wrong unless we're alert to some contradiction which gets us to look it up or are told about another meaning.

E.g. "Literally". Many people, including I, once thought that it meant the opposite of what it does, based on conjecture from context.

 

[SirChadwick]

Originally posted by: Jadow

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Wow... did I really just go half of my life not knowing this? LOL.

Did you suddenly turn 56 overnight? I'd say you spent closer to 99%+ percent of your life not knowing it.

Well I think that I'll probably live to be 56-60 yrs old w/ my lifestyle habits...

So I've really only lived half my life thus far. Make sense? Quirky answer though.

 

[Koing]

I thought my German teacher Ms Di Marie was GERMAN up until I was about 16 I only clicked that she was Spanish! whoops!

Koing

 

[KeithTalent]

I taught my gf the words "defecate" and "cadaver" the other day. She's 28 as well and didn't know either of those words.

KT

 

[Mr Pickles]

Siblings comes from Pickle bushes. Fact.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I taught my gf the words "defecate" and "cadaver" the other day. She's 28 as well and didn't know either of those words.

KT

I'm interested to know the context of your teaching her this.. kinky

 

[keird]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I taught my gf the words "defecate" and "cadaver" the other day. She's 28 as well and didn't know either of those words.

KT

wtf was the context?!

Edit: Farang beat me to it.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I never understood the meaning of "it was in the last place I looked" until semi-recently.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I taught my gf the words "defecate" and "cadaver" the other day. She's 28 as well and didn't know either of those words.

KT

I'm interested to know the context of your teaching her this.. kinky

Two separate instances within a 48 hour period. She taught me the term "front buns" the next day, which I had never heard before.

KT

 

[acheron]

I thought "culminate" and "cumulate" were the same word until I was 17.

 

[sao123]

All together now:

Voe - Cab - yew - Lair - Ree

 

[tefleming]

Originally posted by: Madwand1

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Almost everyone has several words they think they understand the proper meaning of, but get wrong, sometimes exactly wrong. The problem is that with most of these words, we don't that we got it wrong unless we're alert to some contradiction which gets us to look it up or are told about another meaning.

E.g. "Literally". Many people, including I, once thought that it meant the opposite of what it does, based on conjecture from context.

My favorite commonly mis-used word is peruse

hint: it doesn't mean skim.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: tefleming

Originally posted by: Madwand1

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Have any of you gone through most of your life thinking you knew what a word meant only to find out you didn't?

Almost everyone has several words they think they understand the proper meaning of, but get wrong, sometimes exactly wrong. The problem is that with most of these words, we don't that we got it wrong unless we're alert to some contradiction which gets us to look it up or are told about another meaning.

E.g. "Literally". Many people, including I, once thought that it meant the opposite of what it does, based on conjecture from context.

My favorite commonly mis-used word is peruse

hint: it doesn't mean skim.

hint: It can

from your own link:

"to look over or through in a casual or cursory manner"

"to read in a casual or leisurely way"

Synonyms: "glance over, scan, skim;"