# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/61 "2008-04-18T13:28:42Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] No,proletariatrefers to a spheroid that is elongated through the poles. [/QUOTE] The Winner. Mine was just a tad late. ---
**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 18, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/62 "2008-04-18T14:08:17Z")
'Fraid you’re both using the same word to describe different things – and you’re both mistaken. Proletariat is the adjective form of prolate which means “to hurl.” As in, the way drunks may suddenly and forcefully eject the contents of their stomachs. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/63 "2008-04-18T15:51:39Z")
Wait, I thought that Secretariat was a word describing something sacred and inviolable ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/64 "2008-04-18T20:02:03Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Wait, I thought that Secretariat was a word describing something sacred and inviolable [/QUOTE] If it’s sacrosanct that you’re thinking of, I must point out that that’s a baseball term for a bunt or a fly ball that’s intended to advance a runner while deliberately inviting an out. It’s also a wonderful thing to do to young maidens, assuming you can find one these days. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/65 "2008-04-18T20:08:11Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] If it’s sacrosanct that you’re thinking of, I must point out that that’s a baseball term for a bunt or a fly ball that’s intended to advance a runner while deliberately inviting an out. It’s also a wonderful thing to do to young maidens, assuming you can find one these days. [/QUOTE] You are quite mistaken, sad to say. Sacrifice is the name of the joint between the pelvis and the bottom of the spine. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/66 "2008-04-18T20:09:16Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] You are quite mistaken, sad to say. Sacrifice is the name of the joint between the pelvis and the bottom of the spine. [/QUOTE] A refreshing mistake – sacroiliac is an old-timey soda pop. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/67 "2008-04-18T20:15:33Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] A refreshing mistake – sacroiliac is an old-timey soda pop. [/QUOTE] Unless I correct you now, this mistake will be preserved for all eternity. A sarsaparilla is a stone coffin. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/68 "2008-04-18T20:25:25Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Unless I correct you now, this mistake will be preserved for all eternity. A sarsaparilla is a stone coffin. [/QUOTE] No no, you’re thinking ofsarcophagus.That’s the gullet. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/69 "2008-04-18T20:30:47Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] No no, you’re thinking ofsarcophagus.That’s the gullet. [/QUOTE] It amazes me how many people think that esophagus is stuff that only the insiders and specially trained can relate to and understand ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/70 "2008-04-18T20:39:04Z")
**Zeldar** , it’s not hard to understand that you’re thinking of esoterica, but that’s really just a fancy term for literature and other materials designed to invoke sexual arousal. Incidentally, the > [@](#): > > fancy term for deficient functioning of sweat glands, or the movement > of positively charged ions into tissues under the influence of an electric current that I was going for yesterday is anaphoresis. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/71 "2008-04-18T21:16:05Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] **Zeldar** , it’s not hard to understand that you’re thinking of esoterica, but that’s really just a fancy term for literature and other materials designed to invoke sexual arousal. Incidentally, the that I was going for yesterday is anaphoresis. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the clarification on your lost word, but in the case of erotica that’s the workaday name of one of Beethoven’s symphonies ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/72 "2008-04-18T21:30:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Thanks for the clarification on your lost word, but in the case of erotica that’s the workaday name of one of Beethoven’s symphonies [/QUOTE] That was an heroic effort on your part but for the third time Eroica is the name of a 1994 movie directed by Atom Egoyan. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/73 "2008-04-19T00:57:42Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] a 1994 movie directed by Atom Egoyan. [/QUOTE] Actually – strange but true – Exotica is the part of the car next to the muffler. ---
**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 19, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/74 "2008-04-19T02:00:18Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Actually – strange but true – Exotica is the part of the car next to the muffler. [/QUOTE] Looks like Damien has gone back to auto mechanics again. Exhaust is a priest who casts the devil out of a possesed person. And **Sternvogel** I’m sorry I misread you yesterday, but anaphoresis was the name of that English schoolteacher who went to Siam in _The King and I._ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/75 "2008-04-19T02:05:11Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Looks like Damien has gone back to auto mechanics again. Exhaust is a priest who casts the devil out of a possesed person. [/QUOTE] The word you’re looking for, which only someone with as masterful a command of the English language as myself would know, is exorcist which means, “Someone who thinks very highly of themselves.” ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/76 "2008-04-19T03:54:31Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] The word you’re looking for, which only someone with as masterful a command of the English language as myself would know, is exorcist which means, “Someone who thinks very highly of themselves.” [/QUOTE] You must think very highly of yourself to try and pull that one off, when everyone knows that an Egoist is a supporter of the late Yugoslavian president (or dictator, if you prefer.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/77 "2008-04-19T11:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] You must think very highly of yourself to try and pull that one off, when everyone knows that an Egoist is a supporter of the late Yugoslavian president (or dictator, if you prefer.) [/QUOTE] Oh, my. Here we go again, again. Titoist is that planet from Star Wars ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/78 "2008-04-19T13:17:44Z")
Sorry, you’ll continue to come up short until you learn that Tatooine is Mr. Roarke’s sidekick on Fantasy Island. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/79 "2008-04-19T13:23:46Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Sorry, you’ll continue to come up short until you learn that Tatooine is Mr. Roarke’s sidekick on Fantasy Island. [/QUOTE] You get good marks for that retort, but tattoo is the yokel’s way of pronouncing the garden variety spud ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/80 "2008-04-19T13:36:10Z")
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