Nice one Einstein ; Right word, wrong meaning.

[ace_of_something]

I thought this would be about oxymorons ands Misnomers, rather than spoonerisms.

My friend once called a Minotaur a Monitor. Since than we?ve always called them that.

 

[Panzer_God]

Having an amphibious friend would be the best thing ever because you know that when the rest of super power mutations are handed out you will get something cooler like flying to balance out the super friend team.

The correct response to this sort of situation isn't "Nice one Einstein." It's "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." In the words of Inigo Montoya.

Awesome. Any qoutes by Inigo can be used in everyday conversation. becasue they are AMAZING!

 

[Gerazzi]

This doesn't happen very often but it's hilarious when it does.

 

[DoW Lowen]

A ruffian I met at a bar once took "Calm down" as "take a swing at me, I'm just asking for it". So perhaps I used the wrong word?

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

YAY! Someone is finally aknowledging my existense.
I was somewhere over the rainbow with sasquatch and the king of rock...
It was magical.... =D

[Edit] Sorry forgot to press the quote button to chrome alchemist. Please don't ban me for saying this again to quote this time.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

"I'm going to obliterate every living orgasm on the planet!"

 

[Lullabye]

"mulatto means pack mule"-social studies teacher telling me, a half black half white kid, what the term "mullato" means.
Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry.[1] The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations.[2] Its current usage varies greatly.-wikipedia
nice going Mrs. H, way to show me up in front of class.

 

[Lullabye]

"I'm going to obliterate every living orgasm on the planet!"

oh no's!

 

[lwm3398]

and to think i came here expecting a hole in the theory of relativity...

on topic, no, i haven't had any conversational faux pas' such as these.

and can someone tell me how to spell faux pa? i have no idea.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Its no the best, i just needed something that was at least relatively catchy.

I see what you did there.

 

[lwm3398]

That's not the right word with the wrong meaning, that's the wrong word with the wrong meaning...

I deem this kinda as one of the lamest responses ever >.<

I'm sorry

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Me too

Einstein?!? Where in God's name have you been? We were going to make you Fuhrer you know!

for the last time, Mein Fuhrer is Herr Major! cookie for reference.

 

[Halokon]

I thought this would be about oxymorons ands Misnomers, rather than spoonerisms.

My friend once called a Minotaur a Monitor. Since than we?ve always called them that.

Spoonerisms are when you switch a part of one word with another (EDIT: Within a sentence, not just in general, I am fallible). Not meaning to flame or anything, just pointing that out...

On that topic though, my girlfriend once told me that when she was older she wanted to "Smike a pope" which had us in fits and has become the catch all phrase for tripped up speech between us...

I have no further contribution to this thread, good day!

 

[BehattedWanderer]

"...And when General Grant moved in from the north to help the confederacy win the war."

--one of my friends in a powerpoint presentation to the class a few years back. Took him about a minute to realize what he'd said.

The funniest cases of these are the Freudian slips, though.

"I'm going to obliterate every living orgasm on the planet!"

While quite a humorous thought, a little tangent from that is one of the scariest things I've ever heard--Living Orgasm? Downright terrifying, that.

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

That's not the right word with the wrong meaning, that's the wrong word with the wrong meaning...

I deem this kinda as one of the lamest responses ever >.<

I'm sorry

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Me too

Einstein?!? Where in God's name have you been? We were going to make you Fuhrer you know!

YAY! I'm popular!
I was somewhere over the rainbow with sasquach and the king of rock.....
it was magical..... =D

 

[Switchlurk]

The other day i was having a chat with some mates when the topic of hands came up, (yes i know i have really exciting conversations) and one of my mates said he was kinda amphibious. When questioned, he replied that he can kinda right with both hands, to which we replied, don't you mean ambidextrous? He said "wait, what?" to which we replied with, "Nice one, Einstein"

So have you run into a situation where someone had been using completely the wrong word?

"he replied that he can kinda right with both hands"

you mean write?.... pretty much just did what you were complaining about

That was a typo, my point was when someone genuinely thinks something completely different from what it actually is.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

I havn't really done this... But I (being danish of nationality) frequently try to use english phrases in danish... With hilarious results.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Im pretty sure shaq said something like that before.

 

[Unreliable]

SEMANTICS!! Derr!