Wordie: Save: Comments

Comment by Evin290, 3 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:05:50 +0000

Thanks, Reese. =)

Comment by reesetee, 3 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:53:40 +0000

Heehee. Welcome back, Evin.

Comment by Evin290, 3 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:50:14 +0000

I never imagined this would cause such a stir! (Save for my sparse instances of clairvoyance.)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:47:46 +0000

Eh, you'll only do that when I get bored and want to make things interesting for myself.

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:41:43 +0000

And just wait until I start in on the word fancy!

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:39:32 +0000

Oooh, I hadn't thought of that!

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:39:07 +0000

As long as the entire universe remains in my imagination, I have nothing to fear. Unidefinitional save shall prevail!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:35:30 +0000

I may be you, but you get none of my suitcase space. I need it for souvenirs. And keep to your side of the armrest!

Watch out! Slumry's set for a coup while you/I/we/us are away. ;-)

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:33:41 +0000

Invective and spleen and treason too? Wow! Am I a Wordie heretic? Will I be burned on a pyre?

I will join with my conbrethren and found the Save save sect.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:23:12 +0000

Say what? I'm leaving for a week's vacation on Saturday! You're not following me, are you? Oh wait, I forgot about solipsism... you ARE me. And slumry, your comment is tantamount to treason. Don't cross the Languagemaster.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:05:06 +0000

Well, make it quick. I'm leaving for a week's vacation on Saturday. I can only beg forgiveness for another day or so.

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:04:58 +0000

Stuff and nonsense! Eyewash! Save is a perfectly fine preposition, having evolved in parallel with the other sense of save. It does mean except.

As for having cofusingly contranymic meanings, that is just balderdash. It may be a near-contranym, but in practice it would take a real dunderhead to fail to understand the two meanings.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:27:18 +0000

I will... but not yet. I'm still trying to think of a suitable penance. ;-)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:45:57 +0000

Right. I keep forgetting that. Forgive me, Oh Mighty Languagemaster.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:02:54 +0000

Language is what I say it is. If you're speaking English, it's only by my generosity that you're allowed to do so.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:21:35 +0000

I don't use "save" this way myself, but if you read it as meaning "all but," it could be properly used to mean except.

Then again, it doesn't sound like you accept that definition, uselessness. ;-)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:16:56 +0000

Oroboros' observation below is correct, and a perfect reason why this definition shouldn't be used. See my comment on the word fancy (speaking of which) for a similar gripe. The word "save" doesn't mean anything like except, and its use in that way is just bizarre, in the same way fancy has nothing to do with like!

Comment by Evin290, about 1 year ago

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:45:33 +0000

Oh, but it just sounds so fancy! :P

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 21 May 2007 09:09:52 +0000

I never did like that use of the word, it just sounds too contrived. But sometimes when writing I'm forced to use it for the sake of flow.

Comment by Evin290, about 1 year ago

Sat, 19 May 2007 22:42:02 +0000

The preposition, synonymous with "except."

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:40:07 +0000

Contronymic in the sense: exclusion vs. inclusion.