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Have you ever used a word thinking you knew what it meant, but didn't?

When I was about 3-4 y/o I picked up on the word ignorant.
To my tiny little self this word sounded like it meant 'angry'.
So when I would get mad I would adamantly exclaim "you're making me ignorant!'
To which all the grownups would laugh .....which only made me more angry, aka ignorant 😂
skmokisses
46-50, F
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Also, "to be warm" is a slang for being homosexual here. When I was about 6-7, I used to hold hands with my friend and someone called us warm. She took an offense but I thought it meant to like someone in general, not in romantic sense, so I replied: I like her, so I'm warm, so what? 😆
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Funny. My father argued today that ignorant means something different in English than here. He said it means "to not know." I said it means " to not know and not care about it." Which is more or less universal across languages, I guess. But now I looked up the definition and it really means to be uneducated or lacking knowledge. I somehow missed that.
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Entwistle · 56-60, M
Yes,Opaque..i thought it meant 'See through'..it actually means the opposite of transparent and see through. Doh!
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ThesebootsRhungry
My family use to say I looked like Shirley. I was a hot headed lil lady lol!
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skmokisses · 46-50, F
@ThesebootsRhungry I've always been a little sassy myself. lol
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LordBarbossa · 36-40, TNew
When I was about 10 my mom told me to go clean my room. I responded with "Why? Do you think I'm gay?"

I had heard someone use that exact sentence in a series that same day, and had never heard the word "gay" before, so I didn't guess the meaning correctly 😅
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skmokisses · 46-50, F
@LordBarbossa My eldest daughter did something similar when her and her sister were young. The older called the younger a lesbian. The older, I think 9 at the time, had no idea what the word meant. The younger, probably 3, assumed it wasn't something nice and came running to me crying and saying her sister had called her a 'lezian'. After having a good giggle ....everyone got a lesson on using words we don't know what they mean.
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Ferric67 · M
Cute
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Cigarguy101 · 41-45, M
There are a lot of words people use that I don't understand. I try to avoid them. In fact there are times people say one and I'll Google it so I know what the heck they are talking about
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YoMomma · 41-45
Yeah in my 20’s or 30’s.. 😅
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
My wife over uses mortify. It drives me nuts!
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YoMomma · 41-45
@samueltyler2 mortified 😅
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skmokisses · 46-50, F
@SubstantialKick Oh gosh ..... good thing you asked first 🤭
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pentagrammom ·
Ever challenged a human processing misinformation under a false premise?
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skmokisses · 46-50, F
@pentagrammom Can't say I have 🤔
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pentagrammom ·
@skmokisses tru, algorithm does that, not the characters they absolutely controlled by the system
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Degbeme · 70-79, M
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Ferise1 · 46-50, M
Takes a lot to get me ignorant
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skmokisses · 46-50, F
@Ferise1 LOL ... me to these days
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