Infrapink@thebrainbin.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 hours agoThe phrases "This shit is dope!" and "This dope is shit!" have exact opposite meanings.message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up195arrow-down1message-squareThe phrases "This shit is dope!" and "This dope is shit!" have exact opposite meanings.Infrapink@thebrainbin.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 hours agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoNot quite exact opposite. In the first sentence, ‘shit’ could be damn near anything. In the second sentence, ‘dope’ is going to be cocaine or heroin or something close to that. So they’re not exact opposites, as the potential scope of the subject of the first sentence is much more broad than the second.
Not quite exact opposite.
In the first sentence, ‘shit’ could be damn near anything.
In the second sentence, ‘dope’ is going to be cocaine or heroin or something close to that.
So they’re not exact opposites, as the potential scope of the subject of the first sentence is much more broad than the second.