by pee_jay July 28, 2017
Get the wild for no reason mug.Meaningless rhetoric used to gain the upper hand in an argument where you have nothing substantial to add.
Ironically most employed in an attempt to end the most combustible & controversial of debates.
Ironically most employed in an attempt to end the most combustible & controversial of debates.
Abortion should be outlawed everywhere, for obvious reasons.
Software piracy isn't bad, for obvious reasons.
Adolf Hitler was a model citizen and well-meaning person, for obvious reasons.
Software piracy isn't bad, for obvious reasons.
Adolf Hitler was a model citizen and well-meaning person, for obvious reasons.
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Altering or adding to a prior word or term term that must be further defined in the light of later developments or technical innovation.
Example: No one called "World War One" that until there was a "World War Two" with which to contrast it. The going term during the 1914-1918 war and up to 1939 was "The Great War."
Altering or adding to a prior word or term term that must be further defined in the light of later developments or technical innovation.
Example: No one called "World War One" that until there was a "World War Two" with which to contrast it. The going term during the 1914-1918 war and up to 1939 was "The Great War."
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Other employment of term retronym:
Telephone becomes "rotary-dial phone" to distinguish it from the push-button phones that became widespread in the 1970s and early 1980s (although rotary-dial phones still work if all you want to do is place a call and don't need to access features like querying a bank account balance).
Similarly, telephone also becomes "corded phone" to distinguish the traditional hard-wired telephone from those that are wireless in some way, such as cordless phones.
"Regular" coffee to distinguish it from decaffeinated coffee; some people say "caffeinated" coffee but strictly speaking this is a grammatical back-formation, not a retronym, because "to caffeinate" would mean to ADD caffeine to traditional coffee.
Note, though, that Coca-Cola is a "caffeinated" or "caffeine-containing" soft drink in its usual red-can form. Now that there is a Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola "caffeinated" could find use as a retronym for "the real thing."
"Manual" or "standard" or "stick" transmission on a car, none of which terms was necessary before automatic transmissions on cars became widespread and assumed to be the norm.
And, of course, "acoustic" guitar.
Other employment of term retronym:
Telephone becomes "rotary-dial phone" to distinguish it from the push-button phones that became widespread in the 1970s and early 1980s (although rotary-dial phones still work if all you want to do is place a call and don't need to access features like querying a bank account balance).
Similarly, telephone also becomes "corded phone" to distinguish the traditional hard-wired telephone from those that are wireless in some way, such as cordless phones.
"Regular" coffee to distinguish it from decaffeinated coffee; some people say "caffeinated" coffee but strictly speaking this is a grammatical back-formation, not a retronym, because "to caffeinate" would mean to ADD caffeine to traditional coffee.
Note, though, that Coca-Cola is a "caffeinated" or "caffeine-containing" soft drink in its usual red-can form. Now that there is a Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola "caffeinated" could find use as a retronym for "the real thing."
"Manual" or "standard" or "stick" transmission on a car, none of which terms was necessary before automatic transmissions on cars became widespread and assumed to be the norm.
And, of course, "acoustic" guitar.
by al-in-chgo March 6, 2010
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Get the Reason Being mug.When you act or say something like an Italian and your excuse for it being ok was that you watch The Sopranos or The Jersey Shore
Person 1 - whatta ya mean you forgot to pick up the tickets whatta you stunad
Person 2 - Stunad, what?
Perosn 1 - its ok I watch the sopranos
Person 1 - oh the old The Jersey Shore/Sopranos Reasoning
Person 2 - Stunad, what?
Perosn 1 - its ok I watch the sopranos
Person 1 - oh the old The Jersey Shore/Sopranos Reasoning
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