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[deleted] t1_iuk3txg wrote

Reply to comment by nameisinusetryagain in What words, like genius, have lost complete meaning through overuse? by unitedfan6191

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maveric_gamer t1_iuk86by wrote

This isn't the first time - English as a language likes doing this so much that we have a name for it: the contranym - or the word that is also its own antonym. We're just sarcastic assholes so often that our language does that over time.

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