# Therapist=The Rapist- Other words like this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 25, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320 "2011-07-25T22:41:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/21 "2011-07-26T01:38:11Z")
> [@heathen\_earthling](#): > > A domain name with a double meaning is called a [slurl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurl). That’s very cool! (Love this place). 🆒 It’s a sort of variation on the [Scunthorpe Problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)– where substrings run afoul of profanity and spam filters – but in this case it’s super-strings… or new substrings within a super-string… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/22 "2011-07-26T02:51:03Z")
> [@SmartAlecCat](#): > > On “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Charlie was trying to explain that he was a “Philanthropist”, but it came out: “Full On Rapist”. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JcFtXnQwm8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JcFtXnQwm8) And, of course, Tobias Funke’s career as an [analyst and therapist](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIpPqcln6Y), the world’s first “analrapist” on “Arrested Development.” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/23 "2011-07-26T04:18:26Z")
[Kidsexchange](http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=23864) ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/24 "2011-07-26T04:22:55Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > [penisland.net](http://www.penisland.net/) is a great (less than serious) example of that. From that site: > [@](#): > > Some people know exactly what they want in a custom Pen Island pen. Others aren’t quite sure and may want to experiment a bit before they find the one that is right for them. Wild or mild, we can help you find the pen for you. > > No request is too boring or too off-the-wall. Don’t be ashamed if all you want is a normal skinny white pen, they get the job done and they are infact our biggest seller! Conversely, there is no reason to be shy about your Pen Island needs. We’ve done it all. Wrapped in leather, little pink bows, we’ve even done pens dipped in chocolate! > > Your pen is our business. Contact us today. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/25 "2011-07-26T04:31:27Z")
In his lectures (and the Audio Renaissance version of his book _The Hero with a Thousand Faces_), Joseph Campbell notes that the Hero undergoes _Atonemement_ during his journey, and he observes that you can separate that out into _At - One -Ment_ – “The hero becomes One with the Father,” says Campbell “You can make it read that way, and the word really does have those two separate meanings.” That’s always bugged me – Campbell can’t mean that the way it sounds. It’s only in English that the double meaning or pun appears, and it’s clearly fortuitous – nobody designed the word “atonement” so that it also could mean “At One Ment”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/26 "2011-07-26T09:07:49Z")
One of our own: Mangetout / Man get out ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/27 "2011-07-26T09:21:12Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In his lectures (and the Audio Renaissance version of his book _The Hero with a Thousand Faces_), Joseph Campbell notes that the Hero undergoes _Atonemement_ during his journey, and he observes that you can separate that out into _At - One -Ment_ – “The hero becomes One with the Father,” says Campbell “You can make it read that way, and the word really does have those two separate meanings.” > That’s always bugged me – Campbell can’t mean that the way it sounds. It’s only in English that the double meaning or pun appears, and it’s clearly fortuitous – nobody designed the word “atonement” so that it also could mean “At One Ment”. Huh? Look it up in the dictionary. **Atone** does in fact come from the phrase “at one”. I occasionally see trucks from a local contractor named I and E Construction. Their url (which is on the trucks, of course) runs this together as iandeconstruction. I keep parsing it as “Ian deconstruction”. Similarly, there’s the Straight Doper known as **mangetout**. I have a tendency to parse this as man-get-out. Does anyone else do that too? ETA: Rats! ninja’d by panache45. Well, that answers my question, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/28 "2011-07-26T09:52:36Z")
When you assassinate, you make 2 asses out of Nate and I. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/29 "2011-07-26T11:03:37Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Joseph Campbell notes that the Hero undergoes _Atonemement_ during his journey, and he observes that you can separate that out into _At - One -Ment_ Which reminds me of the e.e. cummings poem which showed that loneliness is l-one-l-i-ness. ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/30 "2011-07-26T11:56:00Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > (oddly enough, in German, the word for slaughter 'Schlachen" also contains the German word for “laughter” - “lachen”) Close, but still missed: the German word for slaughter is “Schlach **t** en” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/31 "2011-07-26T12:18:04Z")
Not as sexy as some of the others, but it’s all I got: Breakfast. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/32 "2011-07-26T12:19:10Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > One of our own: > > Mangetout / Man get out Also **thinksnow / think snow / thinks now** ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/33 "2011-07-26T12:19:14Z")
> [@heathen\_earthling](#): > > A domain name with a double meaning is called a [slurl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurl). > > [http://www.slurls.com/](http://www.slurls.com/) That’s great, thanks! Many of the examples there tend to be from several, rather unsatisfying categories: 1. inadvertant “-----s ex-----” 2. the creator’s not being aware of some recent and/or specialized slang, e.g., a church using the word “cum” My favorite ones, and the ones closest to the spirit of the OP, are less obvious, and therefore clearly inadvertant, such as: ``` **les bocages** (a French landscaping term) ``` being easily misread as: ``` **lesbo cages** ``` ---
**Author:** ![QuercusMax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/8baadc/32.png) [@QuercusMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuercusMax)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/34 "2011-07-26T13:22:50Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Not as sexy as some of the others, but it’s all I got: > > Breakfast. > mmm Except “breakfast” is when you “break your fast”, i.e. eat for the first time. That’s where the word comes from. [breakfast - Wiktionary, the free dictionary](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/breakfast) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/35 "2011-07-26T13:23:31Z")
When I was a kid, I honestly thought “we sell service, not justice” was the slogan of the local catering and refreshment company. Turns out they sell service, not just ice, and emblazon words to that effect on their bags of ice, which sometimes, y’know, bunch up a bit and get wrinkled. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/36 "2011-07-26T13:45:37Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In his lectures (and the Audio Renaissance version of his book _The Hero with a Thousand Faces_), Joseph Campbell notes that the Hero undergoes _Atonemement_ during his journey, and he observes that you can separate that out into _At - One -Ment_ – “The hero becomes One with the Father,” says Campbell “You can make it read that way, and the word really does have those two separate meanings.” > That’s always bugged me – Campbell can’t mean that the way it sounds. It’s only in English that the double meaning or pun appears, and it’s clearly fortuitous – nobody designed the word “atonement” so that it also could mean “At One Ment”. Actually, they did. The words Atone and Atonement were invented by William Tyndale while translating the Bible into English to mean becoming “at one” with God. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/37 "2011-07-26T14:47:11Z")
For years I read “sundried” tomatoes as the past tense of “sundry,”–i.e., from here and there. It never occurred to me that such a word doesn’t exist. Also, I’ve heard that the Chevy Nova bombed in Spanish-speaking countries because its name No-Va means “doesn’t go.” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/38 "2011-07-26T14:57:31Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I once saw a whole list of websites that, when spelled out in sentence form, were perfectly respectable. But once they were crammed together to form a web name, they were all pretty wrong! “www dot therapist dot com” was one of them. I’ll see if I can dredge up some of the others… My understanding is that if you want to contact a celebrity, you need to know who represents them. The actual, legit website to use to figure that out is [whorepresents.com](http://whorepresents.com) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/39 "2011-07-26T15:22:22Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Also, I’ve heard that the Chevy Nova bombed in Spanish-speaking countries because its name No-Va means “doesn’t go.” [Yes, but no.](http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/40 "2011-07-26T15:30:31Z")
Not a word, but a name: Former Cubs shortstop and current Cardinal **[Ryan Theriot](http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/theriry01.shtml)** is often referred to as “Ryan the Riot” by sportscasters who think they’re being clever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320.md?page=3)