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skipvia commented on the word captionym
Words that have different meanings depending on capitalization; for example, polish and Polish.
Edit: Had I been a typie, I would have keyed this in as capitonym, which was my intent. But this seems to have taken on a life of its own.
November 15, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word captionym
Maybe it's more like... different captions for the same image. Alternatively, different images for the same caption.
November 15, 2007
john commented on the word captionym
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a word that has a different meaning when used as a caption. For example, a "bat" is a flying nocturnal mammal, or to hit with a stick. But it means something else entirely when captioning a picture of country music has-been Bat McGrath
November 15, 2007
john commented on the word captionym
ha! a wordie jinx: two wordies typing similar comments in synchronicity.
November 15, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word captionym
Yeah, and it's something else entirely when you're talking about gunmen of the old West.
(Am I the only person who remembers that Bugs Bunny cartoon in which "Bat Masterson" was actually a head with bat wings on it, floating six feet above the floor?)
(P.S. I want it known to wordieternity that this word was an orphan until I took it under my bat-wing.)
November 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word captionym
Actually, I believe it refers to captioning for hearing-impaired nyms.
John, what have you done? That Bat McGrath link gave me the Red Screen of Death!
Serves me right for wordieing at work. :-P
November 15, 2007
uselessness commented on the word captionym
As a rule of thumb, I never click links that have "myspace" in the URL. :-P
November 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word captionym
What URL? I don't see one 'til I click it! :-)
November 15, 2007
oroboros commented on the word captionym
The monkeys got captionym in only a few minutes; a long way from all of Shakespeare's works, granted, but still impressive!
reesetee: you know about right-click 'inspect element', right?
March 6, 2010