# Malapropagation (Thread 3 of game -- #1 with New Name) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 16, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579 "2008-04-16T12:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/281 "2008-04-24T00:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] **kunilu** had it. [/QUOTE] What **kunilou** had was contention. Go with that, whomever. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/282 "2008-04-24T00:26:02Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] What **kunilou** had was contention. Go with that, whomever. [/QUOTE] Thanks, but it was only up for a minute. Anyway, it’s obvious that until I can post faster, I should stay after school in contention. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/283 "2008-04-24T00:32:08Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Thanks, but it was only up for a minute. Anyway, it’s obvious that until I can post faster, I should stay after school in contention. [/QUOTE] Not true. It’s just happened more than a few times that the thing will sit here for hours and then suddenly everybody wants to answer, and things get balled up. Anyway, your “contention” is really the word for what Sherlock was noted for. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/284 "2008-04-24T02:32:37Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Not true. It’s just happened more than a few times that the thing will sit here for hours and then suddenly everybody wants to answer, and things get balled up. Anyway, your “contention” is really the word for what Sherlock was noted for. [/QUOTE] Sherlock was indeed a master of deduction although his ability to swallow, break down, absorb and expel is actually shared by all of us to some degree. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/285 "2008-04-24T04:03:17Z")
I don’t know…I don’t think all that many people are as bad about it as me. When I start to tell a story, a digestion is practically guaranteed! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/286 "2008-04-24T07:29:24Z")
Hang on though. Isn’t a digression something a square has two of, and a cube has three? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/287 "2008-04-24T09:53:51Z")
Hope I’m not being a blockhead & getting it wrong – I believe a degree sign is an ingredient in dishwashing liquids and tire-cleaning products. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/288 "2008-04-24T10:06:46Z")
(I was actually after dimension…) No, a detergent is like some kind of a super-weapon that you hope not to use, but intend that it will scare other people off going to war with you… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/289 "2008-04-24T11:04:24Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] (I was actually after dimension…) No, a detergent is like some kind of a super-weapon that you hope not to use, but intend that it will scare other people off going to war with you.. [/QUOTE] I may have read the wrong issue of Jane’s magazine to see that deterrent is what you have to do when they’re tearing up the street to repave it, or the bridge is out, or there’s been a major mishap on the road, or in the words of an old song, Heartbreak Ahead… ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/290 "2008-04-24T11:25:12Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I may have read the wrong issue of Jane’s magazine to see that deterrent is what you have to do when they’re tearing up the street to repave it, or the bridge is out, or there’s been a major mishap on the road, or in the words of an old song, Heartbreak Ahead… [/QUOTE] To be honest that sounds more to me likediversionwhich is what you do when you turn something upside down. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/291 "2008-04-24T11:38:38Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] To be honest that sounds more to me likediversionwhich is what you do when you turn something upside down. [/QUOTE] Well, actually I was shooting for detour, but time passes on. Where you imply inversion – maybe something else I’ve always heard that to mean what happens when you “see something in your mind’s eye” sort of thing. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/292 "2008-04-24T13:42:58Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Well, actually I was shooting for detour, but time passes on. Where you imply inversion – maybe something else I’ve always heard that to mean what happens when you “see something in your mind’s eye” sort of thing. [/QUOTE] You don’t need to have intuition to recognize an uprising against established authority. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/293 "2008-04-24T13:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You don’t need to have intuition to recognize an uprising against established authority. [/QUOTE] If you were thinking of insurrection that’s where two roads cross. BTW, I was shooting for envision up there. No sweat, though. Onward and outward. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/294 "2008-04-24T14:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] If you were thinking of insurrection that’s where two roads cross. BTW, I was shooting for envision up there. No sweat, though. Onward and outward. [/QUOTE] Oh! Gosh! I’ve come up with an intersection of exclamations without grammatical linkage. Crap! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/295 "2008-04-24T14:45:23Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Oh! Gosh! I’ve come up with an intersection of exclamations without grammatical linkage. Crap! [/QUOTE] I suspect the interjection to which you refer is really the introduction of a medicinal fluid into your flesh especially with a needle or blowgun ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/296 "2008-04-24T16:03:30Z")
Put this in your pipe and smoke it: injection is when you can’t get someone’s phone number. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/297 "2008-04-24T16:22:32Z")
I don’t think so – rejection is a part of speech. You know, “hooking up words & phrases & clauses”. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/298 "2008-04-24T16:24:02Z")
deleted, too slow. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/299 "2008-04-24T16:53:54Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I don’t think so – rejection is a part of speech. You know, “hooking up words & phrases & clauses”. [/QUOTE] My, my, my. I hear too many people use conjunction for that ailment of the eye often referred to as pinkeye ---
**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:** [April 24, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/300 "2008-04-24T16:55:49Z")
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