“No, definitely.” “No, exactly.” “No, yes.” These curious uses turn “no” into a kind of contranym: a word that can function as its own opposite.
Source: What Part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand? - The New Yorker...
27 April, 2015
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I love Jim Jarmusch's films, and this is a great quote. (via swiss-miss.com via another site that now says it contains malware)....
04 August, 2014
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This is a beautiful project, and very well executed. In the the author's words:
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might...
02 August, 2014
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