# Malapropagation: The Next Generation **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 1, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555 "2008-05-01T02:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/121 "2008-05-09T05:24:43Z")
I believe the word you’re looking for is iPod. How on earth did your son end up with a pet cuttlefish? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/122 "2008-05-09T12:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I believe the word you’re looking for is iPod. How on earth did your son end up with a pet cuttlefish? [/QUOTE] It must have given you a brain infection, because cephalopod is the result of one! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/123 "2008-05-09T14:04:48Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] It must have given you a brain infection, because cephalopod is the result of one! [/QUOTE] More likely, it’s because you’ve spent too much time in the encephalitis , the place where they raise and study the little buggers characterized by their six legs. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/124 "2008-05-10T18:04:57Z")
(took awhile to find that one, & I’m still not sure I’m right.) [QUOTE=kunilou] More likely, it’s because you’ve spent too much time in the encephalitis , the place where they raise and study the little buggers characterized by their six legs. [/QUOTE] That statement really bugs me, because I know that insectarium is another word for non-denominational. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/125 "2008-05-10T19:10:27Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] That statement really bugs me, because I know that insectarium is another word for non-denominational. [/QUOTE] You should learn to read even more closely between the lines so you’d know that interfaith is a space, especially a small or narrow one, between things or parts. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/126 "2008-05-11T09:50:12Z")
Well, that was a good _non-sectarian_ response… 😃 Errrr, where was I, oh yes — it’ll take some balls to say this I guess; see, interstice is a man’s family jewels. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/127 "2008-05-11T22:21:52Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Well, that was a good _non-sectarian_ response… 😃 Errrr, where was I, oh yes — it’ll take some balls to say this I guess; see, interstice is a man’s family jewels. [/QUOTE] Well, there were two of them, but in reality testicles collection of books that make up the Bible. They’re grouped into Old and New. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/128 "2008-05-11T22:38:28Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Well, there were two of them, but in reality testicles collection of books that make up the Bible. They’re grouped into Old and New. [/QUOTE] 'Pon my oath you are wrong! Testamentis rather evidence given by a witness in court. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/129 "2008-05-12T01:40:06Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] 'Pon my oath you are wrong! Testamentis rather evidence given by a witness in court. [/QUOTE] No, no, I’ll wager a large sum that testimony is a word referring to finances or money. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/130 "2008-05-12T15:30:39Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, no, I’ll wager a large sum that testimony is a word referring to finances or money. [/QUOTE] You lose. In fact, you were bound to lose from the start because investment is something that can not be avoided or stopped. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/131 "2008-05-12T15:41:35Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You lose. In fact, you were bound to lose from the start because investment is something that can not be avoided or stopped. [/QUOTE] You are most certainly wrong; if something isinevitablethen you can’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/132 "2008-05-12T16:09:52Z")
I can’t see how you would say that, seeing how invisible is something that can’t be broken apart… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/133 "2008-05-12T19:58:54Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I can’t see how you would say that, seeing how invisible is something that can’t be broken apart… [/QUOTE] **One** could say that, but **one** would be wrong, because indivisible is simply an adjective which means “one”, or a noun which means “any one person”. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/134 "2008-05-12T21:06:32Z")
I hate to single you out, but individual is the name of a really long song by Iron Butterfly. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/135 "2008-05-12T21:17:13Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I hate to single you out, but individual is the name of a really long song by Iron Butterfly. [/QUOTE] Mamma mia, you’re totally wrong! in-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the name of that Roberto Benigni movie from the late 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/136 "2008-05-12T21:21:56Z")
Beaten to the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/137 "2008-05-12T21:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Mamma mia, you’re totally wrong! in-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the name of that Roberto Benigni movie from the late 90s. [/QUOTE] If you’re thinking of La Vita e Bella it’s merely the trade name for vardenafil, one of the drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction. I’ll agree it makes for a strangely appropriate translation. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/138 "2008-05-13T06:56:09Z")
Don’t get your hopes up. 😉 Levitra is just a song/meme from 1999. This song was named one of the 20 Most Annoying Songs by Rolling Stone, according to Wiki. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/139 "2008-05-13T07:23:53Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Don’t get your hopes up. 😉 Levitra is just a song/meme from 1999. This song was named one of the 20 Most Annoying Songs by Rolling Stone, according to Wiki. [/QUOTE] Think again, senorita, Livin’ La Vida Loca is the Spanish/Italian word for mouth, and part of the name of a city in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/140 "2008-05-13T07:35:37Z")
That’s _Signorina_, missy; and another thing— Boca Raton is a well-known Italian recipe for veal. (yuk) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=8)