# Resign v resign. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 3, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231 "2014-10-03T02:12:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/41 "2014-11-26T09:51:13Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Skinning a deer means taking the skin off. I was questioning the use of the word to mean putting a skin on. I’ve heard that usage mostly in computer graphics terms, referring to putting skin on a wireframe character, or providing a character in a computer with personalized whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/42 "2014-11-26T13:21:12Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Skinning a deer means taking the skin off. I was questioning the use of the word to mean putting a skin on. To avoid any confusion in the future, I formally propose de-skin. I used to de-skin rabbits. And yes, I have de-skinned a deer once; quite a job. After all English is flexible says Skald the Rhymer. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/43 "2014-11-26T15:03:28Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Skinning a deer means taking the skin off. I was questioning the use of the word to mean putting a skin on. Ah. I misunderstood. > [@Leaper](#): > > I’ve heard that usage mostly in computer graphics terms, referring to putting skin on a wireframe character, or providing a character in a computer with personalized whatever. Rebodied cars (such as the Mercury versions of Ford vehicles) are sometimes referred to as “reskinned” in the auto industry, too. ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/44 "2014-11-26T15:21:14Z")
So if I ask my wife to pick up some shelled pistachios, is she correct if she brings home nuts with shells intact or if she brings home a bag sans shells? ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/45 "2014-11-26T15:58:55Z")
> [@CGav8r](#): > > So if I ask my wife to pick up some shelled pistachios, is she correct if she brings home nuts with shells intact or if she brings home a bag sans shells? Is your wife Amelia Bedelia? ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/46 "2014-11-26T16:18:25Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > Is your wife Amelia Bedelia? I remember when we were dating and I made an intimate request of her while being amorous, and she jumped up and quickly returned with the severed head of our neighbor. Oh, Amelia Bedelia! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/47 "2014-11-26T18:06:48Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > “Literally” is _never_ used to _mean_ figuratively. I defy anyone to come up with a real example where the word “literally” is used, and where “figuratively” could be substituted for it without a significant change in the meaning. I once heard a soccer commentator say “The Whitecaps are behind the eight ball, literally and figuratively”. I don’t know if that is a counterexample or not. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/48 "2014-11-27T01:16:15Z")
Are pitted olives with or without pits? FWIW, I would always use re-sign for signing up again. It suggests the right meaning and pronunciation. Not only do the two senses of cleave come from entirely different Germanic roots, they are also conjugated differently. Cleave, clove, and either cloven or cleft (cloven hooves, but cleft palate) for the separated meaning and cleave, cleaved, cleaved for the joined meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231/49 "2014-11-27T01:46:24Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > I once heard a soccer commentator say “The Whitecaps are behind the eight ball, literally and figuratively”. I don’t know if that is a counterexample or not. A long way behind the eight ball. Even farther behind the eight ball. Which figuratively (which is to say literally) means, even closer to the eight ball, making it more difficult to get a clear shot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resign-v-resign/700231.md?page=2)