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oroboros (3868 words)
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Autantonyms, by oroboros
Bible names, by Patty4jc
Technologic, by Lampbane
Contronympho, by whichbe
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Thanks, Reese. =)
Heehee. Welcome back, Evin.
I never imagined this would cause such a stir! (Save for my sparse instances of clairvoyance.)
Eh, you'll only do that when I get bored and want to make things interesting for myself.
And just wait until I start in on the word fancy!
Oooh, I hadn't thought of that!
As long as the entire universe remains in my imagination, I have nothing to fear. Unidefinitional save shall prevail!
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. ;-)
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 Savesave sect.
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.
Well, make it quick. I'm leaving for a week's vacation on Saturday. I can only beg forgiveness for another day or so.
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.
I will... but not yet. I'm still trying to think of a suitable penance. ;-)
Right. I keep forgetting that. Forgive me, Oh Mighty Languagemaster.
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.
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. ;-)
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!
Oh, but it just sounds so fancy! :P
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.
The preposition, synonymous with "except."
Contronymic in the sense: exclusion vs. inclusion.