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Those are just autantonyms, and English has plenty already. First you dust the cake, then you dust the table. The castle is impregnable. And if you add more
by 317070 3y ago
Those are just autantonyms, and English has plenty already.
First you dust the cake, then you dust the table.
The castle is impregnable.
And if you add more collocial words, wicked now is good, but also means bad. When a song is cool, you mean it's hot.
People tend to not object to that.
- Jabbles 3y ago<incorrect statement>
- lIl-IIIl 3y agoIt is objected to in some writing. "Inflammable" is taught to be avoided. So are things that mean opposite things depending on locale, like "tabling" an issue. It may be ok within a local group, but would be avoided in writing inside a multinational corporation.
- prepend 3y ago> It is objected to in some writing. Everything is objected to, that’s not sufficient for a decision. It’s the reason or volume of objecting. Just saying there’s some objection is the Twitter fallacy. It could be one person, or even me, or it could be 100% of editors.
- denton-scratch 3y ago"Wicked" to mean "good" is slang. So is "cool", used in that sense. Slang is not encyclopaedic language.
- JW_00000 3y agoI think auto-antonyms should be avoided in an encyclopedia. (And also in scientific publications, text books, and laws.)