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Disembark
Used today by a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises (the operator of the ship that at least three movies will be made about).
Embark = "Get on a boat", and has come to be used figuratively for the first step in any (real or figurative) journey.
Debark = "Get off a boat", and is often used figuratively for getting off of any form of mechanised transport (a journey is not a required part of the definition, in any usage).
Both words are derived from French words, which have the French prefixes "em" (1) and "de" (0) attached to "barque" (boat).
Logically, therefore:
Disembark = "Don't get on a boat or start a journey".
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also debark: to remove bark from a tree (bark in this sense may even be Old English, because Scandinavian languages use it)
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Greg Utas wrote: also debark
Also, to spritz a dog in the face with a water bottle. It works.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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 I recently read an article that included a description of how to stop a dog from killing chickens. The solution is to duct-tape the chicken to the dog's muzzle for the rest of the day. Apparently they figure it out real fast.
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Greg Utas wrote: The solution is to duct-tape the chicken
A new use for duct tape. What can't it do!!?
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Disembark
Used today by a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises...
Disembark /dɪsɪmˈbɑːk,dɪsɛmˈbɑːk/ verb
it is an officially recognised English word, (I believe she was speaking English at the time) - there is nothing wrong with using that word.
yes comes from French blah blah, unless she was speaking French you're barking up the wrong tree.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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I didn't say it wasn't recognised, I said it was stupid.
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There's that whole set - the crowning glory of such verbal insanity:
inflammable = flammable
and, of course,
non-inflammable = nonflammable
to clarify.
(amalgamating some earlier comments)
The rest I leave as an exercise . . .
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When DVDs replaced videotape, wide screen movies could, on the disk, be letterboxed (using near-square pixels) or the pixels could be stretched to 4:3 of their "natural" width. To "morph" means to (re)shape. But the rectangular-pixel format was not referred to as "morphed". Rather, the square-pixel format was referred to as amorph - non-reshaped. The term wasn't seen very often, but based on i came "anamorph", i.e. non-non-reshaped - or reshaped, rectangular pixels. Quite a few times, I saw references to non-anamorph DVD video, non-stretched pixes (letterboxed widescreen), but really non-non-non-morphed pixels.
That was the highest degree of negation I saw in "serious" use. Among friends, we were jokingly referring to disks that were "free of non-anamorphed" and those that were "not free of non-anamorphed" format. The latter, when unfolded, is non-non-non-non-non-morphed pixels. Or DVDs not free of abscensce of non-anamorphed" video. Which is equivalent to "morhphed" pixels, not letterboxed, a sixfold negation.
It is perfectly logical and consistent, not like one expression and its negation means the same thing. But I could care less! Or possibly couldn't.
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When discussing the nuances of language evolution sometimes you lose sight of the forest for the trees.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: sometimes you lose sight of the forest for the trees.
Is that the reason why there are so much deforestation, so one can see again through nothing?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I always teach: "The best place to hide a tree is in a forest".
I leave it to you, as an exercise, to figure out how this applies
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That's a great rule! Is it a traditional way of speech? (It is not in Norwegian, but it might have been!)
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Actually, as best as I can tell, it's an adaptation of a cynical expression one might use about another that cannot see the obvious "they can not see the forest because of the trees".
I adapted it, initially, to describe how I dodged answering people's questions when I was doing infrared laser photo chemistry to separate Uranium isotopes. A great deal of talking so as not to be rude about not answering - although in this case I just never got around to the answer. If you think about the tree, it would be hard to tell if it was not hidden in that forest, as well!
So - at least from my point of view - I sort of made it up and adapted the verbal technique I use to an expression.
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English is full of 'em: Auto Antonyms, like "Handicap": "To give an advantage in sport", or "A disadvantage or disability". Or "Impregnable": "Impossible to enter", or "Able to be impregnated".
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Not forgetting flammable/inflammable
It goes without saying
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Which both mean the same thing!
Very flexible language, English ... 
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Don't forget non-inflammable which means... I don't know which!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Which both mean the same thing!
Don't get me started on "moot" and "tabled"!
They're both antonyms of each other, synonyms of each other, and antonyms of themselves!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Impregnable": "Impossible to enter", or "Able to be impregnated"
That one's worse than you think, because the "impossible to enter" usage is figurative usage of "cannot be made pregnant".
Using it as a synonym of "impregnatable" is where the bad logic lies.
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It beats 'deplaning" which drives me nuts every time I hear it while flying.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: It beats 'deplaning" ... while flying.
well if the other passengers did that it'd make the queues shorter, particularly cool for international travel: getting through security/passport etc (no more stuck behind old farts that don't speak any known modern language.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Chris Maunder wrote: It beats 'deplaning"
That's what, like gluing pieces of shaved wood back on?
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We should consider Newspeak. Consistent, terse, simple. Politicallty sound.
Esperanto is a second alternative, but it lacks several of the qualities of Newspeak. The major problem is that it is not English based.
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Get thee to Room 101!
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