I guess fat chance is said sarcastically.
I’ve never not heard it said sarcastically.
There’s a fat chance you’re gonna be eating those words.
There are words and phrases in English that get used sarcastically so often they lose their original meaning. There is a word for this and I swear I’ve seen a whole list somewhere but my google fu is weak today.
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Schizo and psycho are a bit different, because they involve shortening the words.
Semantic satiation?
No - semantic satiation is when you read or hear a word so much in a short timeframe that it stops feeling like a real word, and briefly feels like just a jumble of letters/sounds.
I hate semantic satiation. It happens all the time while programming for me. I’ll have a variable name with some common word and, after typing it a few times my brain just stops recognizing it as a real word. This sometimes sends me into etymology dives to figure out why the word “jump” (or whatever) looks so strange.
Row•ads, that is a freaky word
Now, I expect to be down voted.
I don’t care, but I’m going to piss a lot of people off.
I say “I could care less”.
That’s sarcasm. It’s what my nineties, heroin chic, grunge music adolescence gave me.
I could care less. It would just require that I make an effort. That’s not caring less. That’s caring about something.
It’s like how the biggest homophobes always seem to be closeted. They care too much.
I remember we used to say “like I could care less” sarcastically back in the late 80s. I moved to a non-English speaking country in ‘89 so I have no idea when “I could care less” shifted from sarcasm to incorrect grammar, but I was surprised the first time I encountered people online mention it as a grammatical pet peeve.
I only down voted you, so you’d be right 👍
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I’m never quite sure what it says about me that I find David Mitchell the most relatable person on television.
You think “could care less” is actually legit? Fat chance!
You think it isn’t? Slim chance!
With you 100%
If you’re up for something, or down for something, it means the same thing.
If you fill in a form or fill out a form, it means the same thing.
English is fucked.
Think about filling in a form, though. Filling in a form—“to fill” is unambiguous. In/out isn’t even necessary when you think about it. “I’m going to fill a form” means the same thing too.
I feel like you’re technically correct, but saying “fill a form” just sounds weird to a native English speaker.
Don’t forget you might already be in the right place and don’t need to go up or down. Then you can say you’re “there for something”
The alarm went off, so I turned it off.
Also try this inflammable table with flammable chairs.
I hate this one, it confuses Dutch people from time to time, so they think “inflammable” means “fire resistant”.
Extra scary when there’s only an English-language warning on this
Fat chance is a sarcastic phrase, so they don’t actually have the same literal meaning
I’ve always loved Mace Windu telling someone “your chances come in two sizes: slim and fat” in an old Star Wars Novell called Shatterpoint.
Fun fact: awful and awesome used to be synonyms
Yup. And one means it via sarcasm.
Yeah, with this argument, “excellent” and “terrible” means the same thing.
one is just said sarcastically
You can make profit on and profit off
Alarms can go off and be turned off
I could build on your point or build off of it.
But if you’re hardly working, you’re not working hard.
Not when you have a slim Jim
I tried eating a Fat Jim but then I got banned from Grindr
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Antiautonyms! https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/antiauto.html
Or contronyms. I don’t funny understand the delineation between the two.
