Malapropagation (Thread 3 of game -- #1 with New Name)

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Over the past three weeks over two dozen Dopers have posted close to 500 posts – in two other threads here in The Game Room – that relate to a game I played as long ago as the 60’s, but never (until yesterday) had a name for.

Thanks to kunilou we now have a name that should be more descriptive of the idea. Check here for more on the name origin, and go here if the word Malapropism is unfamiliar or foggy to you.

The earlier threads where the evolution of how we’ve been playing the game takes place are:
I thought that was a _________

and

The Cossack Game – Thread #2

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This new chain of malaprops and puns and word manglings begins with

Atrocity — which is a fancy word for Speed

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Sigh

No, you are thinking ofVelocitywhich is a measure of the (in)ability of a liquid to flow freely.

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No, silly!

viscosity

is a word oft used to describe the severity of attacks.

4

No,

viciousness

is a type of cold French potato soup.

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No,

Vichyssoise

are the ups and downs of life.

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(Missed the edit window, but wanted to add: Love the new name for the game!)

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[QUOTE=twickster]
No,

Vichyssoise

are the ups and downs of life.
[/QUOTE]

Whatever we call this game, it doesn’t change the fact that you constantly demonstrate your shortcomings as a word maven. In actuality,

vicissitudes

are distances between various points and the y-axis on those graphs you may remember from algebra class.

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
Whatever we call this game, it doesn’t change the fact that you constantly demonstrate your shortcomings as a word maven. In actuality,

vicissitudes

are distances between various points and the y-axis on those graphs you may remember from algebra class.
[/QUOTE]

It’s been a long time since I took algebra, but I know my anatomy and the vector is that muscle in your bladder and your anus that keeps your bodily wastes from dripping out all the time.

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Pretty sure a sphincter is the half lion/half man thing in Egypt.

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[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive]
Pretty sure a sphincter is the half lion/half man thing in Egypt.
[/QUOTE]
No, actually sphinx is a children’s trick that is utilized when two children say the same word.

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I disagree.

Jinx

…is what you might call a flirtatious woman.

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No, a vixen is a shot given to prevent a disease like measles or polio.

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Almost but not quite a

vaccination

is another word for what those crazy foreigners call as holiday.

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[QUOTE=Oredigger77]
Almost but not quite a

vaccination

is another word for what those crazy foreigners call as holiday.
[/QUOTE]

I see you’re from Colorado, so you can be forgiven for not knowing a vacation is a large farm in the old South, where slaves picked cotton.

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[QUOTE=kunilou]
I see you’re from Colorado, so you can be forgiven for not knowing a vacation is a large farm in the old South, where slaves picked cotton.
[/QUOTE]
Nothing to do with that.

Plantation is to soften or break up by soaking in a liquid.

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[QUOTE=MHaye]
Nothing to do with that.

Plantation is to soften or break up by soaking in a liquid.
[/QUOTE]
No,

Macerate is to devise a plot.

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[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
No,

Macerate is to devise a plot.
[/QUOTE]

I marvel how we get to the point where

Machinate

substitutes for the need to chew

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[QUOTE=Zeldar]
I marvel how we get to the point where

Machinate

substitutes for the need to chew
[/QUOTE]
Is that notmasticateto put off doing something?

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[QUOTE=MHaye]
Is that notmasticateto put off doing something?
[/QUOTE]
I hesitated as long as I could (and forgot a couple of times) before responding to tell you that procrastinate really means to predict according to present indications or signs or to foretell.

But you already knew that, didn’t you?

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[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
I hesitated as long as I could (and forgot a couple of times) before responding to tell you that procrastinate really means to predict according to present indications or signs or to foretell.

But you already knew that, didn’t you?
[/QUOTE]

Sorry to disabuse you but prognosticate is the primary character in a story, around whom the plot revolves.

You should have seen it coming.