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Malapropism: A ludicrous misuse of words. Who's got some?

Posted by bringbackpluto • 8/19/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: funny, humor, malaprop, malopropism, the guys

Hey Folks,
Anyone have any funny malapropisms to share? Either that you've heard or have said yourself?

These are words that sound the same but mean different things. "Pacifically speaking.......

I'll get it started. I was explaining what a synonym was to my daughter and this actually came out of my mouth. We all laughed!!

"Synonym, not to be accused with cinnamon."

Thanks,
Bring Back Pluto
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(If I'm gone for a few, the sh... hit the fan. I'll be back!)

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8/19/09

LGramlich

Have you ever watched "Trailer Park Boys"? Ricky's got dozens of them;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCGJ8BzPFs
(Warning; Explicit.)

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1. 8/19/09
  
  bringbackpluto
  
  Thanks. I'll check it out.
8/19/09

Maladjusted

Various characters in "The Sopranos" provide an endless source of them:

e.g. "...a mixture of the sacred and the propane"

Now, this is more solecism than malaproprism, but I can't help mentioning a pet hate: i.e. when people say 'literally' to mean 'actually' such that they say (ad for a t.v. soap daughter saying of her father): "he's literally coming out of the closet!".

She meant: "he's acknowledging his being gay" (i.e. FIGURATIVELY coming out of the closet). Literally coming out means that he was in a cupboard and he's just opened the door and...come out.

Best,

Mal.

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8/19/09

jafabrit

When my art teacher pointed to a part of the skeleton and asked me to name it I blurted out the "syphilis of the pubis" instead of the "symphysis of the pubis". She didn't think it funny but the rest of the class was peeing themselves laughing. I never lived it down.

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1. 8/19/09
  
  bringbackpluto
  
  That is too funny!
  
  I've also heard "syphilis" substituted for syllabus.
  
  This is not really a malapropism, but I once had a third grade student ask me to check her head for ticks. I said "Why?"
  She said, "I keep hearing these ticking noises?" I cracked up! But I did check her head.
8/19/09

Maladjusted

jafarabit.

Hilarious!

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