# 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:** 16
**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, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/301 "2008-04-24T16:59:35Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] My, my, my. I hear too many people use conjunction for that ailment of the eye often referred to as pinkeye [/QUOTE] You’ve lost sight of the answer, I’m afraid. conjunctivitis is an old name for a neurological condition known as chorea, not to mention a song by Black Sabbath. ---
**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, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/302 "2008-04-24T17:18:13Z")
Beaten again. This is getting ridiculous. ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/303 "2008-04-24T17:19:03Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You’ve lost sight of the answer, I’m afraid. conjunctivitis is an old name for a neurological condition known as chorea, not to mention a song by Black Sabbath. [/QUOTE] It’s amazing to me how you see the connection between conjunctivitis and Saint Vitus Dance – if you do but that’s when you give somebody you don’t hate a neat little card, some candy and some flowers and hope they don’t poison your well ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/304 "2008-04-24T17:22:53Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It’s amazing to me how you see the connection between conjunctivitis and Saint Vitus Dance – if you do but that’s when you give somebody you don’t hate a neat little card, some candy and some flowers and hope they don’t poison your well [/QUOTE] Saint Valentine’s Day just happens to be the designation for when some gangsters in Chicago were killed; don’t know if they were hated or not. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/305 "2008-04-24T17:23:58Z")
You snuck one in there! 😃 ---
**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, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/306 "2008-04-24T17:34:16Z")
Are we stuck here? ---
**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, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/307 "2008-04-24T18:28:31Z")
Hey, wait a minute – St. Valentine was a villian in a Western, played by Lee Marvin. (with a silver-handled whip!!) ---
**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/308 "2008-04-24T18:31:19Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Hey, wait a minute – St. Valentine was a villian in a Western, played by Lee Marvin. (with a silver-handled whip!!) [/QUOTE] Damn, gal! You went off the reservation for that one. Sadly, though, Liberty Valance is what Betsy Ross hung her curtains on. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/309 "2008-04-24T20:09:54Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Damn, gal! You went off the reservation for that one. Sadly, though, Liberty Valance is what Betsy Ross hung her curtains on. 😃 [/QUOTE] I’ll take the liberty to point out that valance is actually a scientific term referring to the number of chemical bonds formed by the atoms of a given element. ---
**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, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/310 "2008-04-24T21:18:14Z")
I’ve got my ion that one – valence is in fact one of the depressing realities of urban life. ---
**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, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/311 "2008-04-24T21:20:44Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I’ve got my ion that one – valence is in fact one of the depressing realities of urban life. [/QUOTE] violence is the largest group in the string section ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/312 "2008-04-24T21:43:51Z")
I believe you mean violin but you are as normal incorrect and are thinking of the much larger cousin ---
**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, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/313 "2008-04-24T21:58:17Z")
How sad. Everyone knows that a viola is a law-breaking act, like parking in the wrong place. ---
**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, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/314 "2008-04-24T22:03:06Z")
never mind. ---
**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, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/315 "2008-04-24T22:05:55Z")
I don’t mean to trespass, however I believe a violation is the world after Cthulhu’s done with it. ---
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/316 "2008-04-24T22:26:27Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I don’t mean to trespass, however I believe a violation is the world after Cthulhu’s done with it. [/QUOTE] Close but no cigar.Desolationis the act of removing leaves from trees. ---
**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, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/317 "2008-04-24T23:09:49Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] Close but no cigar.Desolationis the act of removing leaves from trees. [/QUOTE] .Defoliationis the act of casting aspersions on the good name and reputation of a public figure or otherwise notable individual ---
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/318 "2008-04-24T23:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] .Defoliationis the act of casting aspersions on the good name and reputation of a public figure or otherwise notable individual [/QUOTE] Please don’t sue me for poisoning everybody thougts about you, but defamation is the removal or neutralization of a substance, such as poisonous gas or a radioactive material. ---
**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 25, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/319 "2008-04-25T00:32:24Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Please don’t sue me for poisoning everybody thougts about you, but defamation is the removal or neutralization of a substance, such as poisonous gas or a radioactive material. [/QUOTE] It’s not really poisonous, but sediment will spoil the wine’s taste. That’s why you pour it into a decontaminate A votre sante! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/320 "2008-04-25T06:26:36Z")
That’s the spirit! Or it would be, except that decanter is (primarily) a second melody, usually pitched above, that runs counterpoint to the root melody. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=17)