Hard questions, can you figure it out?

[child of the night 271]

Why is abbreviated such a long word?

Why does monosyllabic have five syllables?

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

Why do they call it a building? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a built?

Why is it when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

If price and worth mean the same thing, why priceless and worthless are opposites?

Is there another word for synonym?

Is it possible to be totally partial?

[Graveyard Duck 150]

Well, for one thing, price and worth aren't the same thing. Worth is an expression of intrinsic value and price is an expression of exchange value. Something with a high price could be worthless! (For instance, a lot of Apple products...)

[Dattebayo 2,850]

*waits for mod to throw this thread into the Forum Lounge*

[child of the night 271]

I'll ask around @@Dattebayo but I do not know

[Kel_Grym 1,917]

Language is punny.

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

Why is abbreviated such a long word?

Why does monosyllabic have five syllables?

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

Why do they call it a building? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a built?

Why is it when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

If price and worth mean the same thing, why priceless and worthless are opposites?

Is there another word for synonym?

Is it possible to be totally partial?

1. Because the English language works by prefixes and suffixes. The root word is 'brev' which means short or brief; often adjuct 'ity', which connnotates a state of being. 'Brevity'; to be short; 'iate' is another suffix which means 'to make or cause'; 'ab' means 'away from'. Thus taken together, abbreviate means 'to change something from being as it is, to something short or brief'.

2. Likewise, monosyllabic is just a mash of a whole bunch of fun latin attachments.

3. Why are comb, tomb and bomb pronounced differently? Because English is the linguistic equivalent of a punch in the face.

4. Because the color orange was named after the fruit, and it is no fault of the carrot that its color is more intense than the orange.

5. Interstate highways is a classification of roadways which most often notates highways that connected inbetween states, but otherwise indicates road express ways within states. It would be inefficient to use a different word for the exact same purpose for states which are not connected to the mainland of America.

6. See #3.

7.Because there are walls, which keep the rooms within appartments apart.

8. Because in order for it to be science, it must be falsifiable. This is why all searches should be able to be re-searched, if necessary.

9. It would be awkward if we lived in builts because of the recursive temporal sense.

10. Shipment refers to the materials being transported and cargo is a collective noun for non-human material which will be, is, or has been, transported. However they are interchangeable, as well as other like-verbs, like delivery.

11. Humanitarianism is a philanthropic ideology, not an eating habit.

12. Because western modern Anglophones have spiritualized "priceless" to refer to high worth due to uniqueness, sentimental value, or a figurative reference to inordinately high cost. "Worthless" has not had the misfortune of losing its definition in this way.

13. "Equivalent", "Like-term", "Codefinitive"

14. That depends upon if partial means "not completely" as in quantitative, or partial as in "preferential", the possessive.

Edited May 30, 2014 by Blue

[Kel_Grym 1,917]

1. Because the English language works by prefixes and suffixes. The root word is 'brev' which means short or brief; often adjuct 'ity', which connnotates a state of being. 'Brevity'; to be short; 'iate' is another suffix which means 'to make or cause'; 'ab' means 'away from'. Thus taken together, abbreviate means 'to change something from being as it is, to something short or brief'.

2. Likewise, monosyllabic is just a mash of a whole bunch of fun latin attachments.

3. Why are comb, tomb and bomb pronounced differently? Because English is the linguistic equivalent of a punch in the face.

4. Because the color orange was named after the fruit, and it is no fault of the carrot that its color is more intense than the orange.

5. Interstate highways is a classification of roadways which most often notates highways that connected inbetween states, but otherwise indicates road express ways within states. It would be inefficient to use a different word for the exact same purpose for states which are not connected to the mainland of America.

6. See #3.

7.Because there are walls, which keep the rooms within appartments apart.

8. Because in order for it to be science, it must be falsifiable. This is why all searches should be able to be re-searched, if necessary.

9. It would be awkward if we lived in builts because of the recursive temporal sense.

10. Shipment refers to the materials being transported and cargo is a collective noun for non-human material which will be, is, or has been, transported. However they are interchangeable, as well as other like-verbs, like delivery.

11. Humanitarianism is a philanthropic ideology, not an eating habit.

12. Because western modern Anglophones have spiritualized "priceless" to refer to high worth due to uniqueness, sentimental value, or a figurative reference to inordinately high cost. "Worthless" has not had the misfortune of losing its definition in this way.

13. "Equivalent", "Like-term", "Codefinitive"

14. That depends upon if partial means "not completely" as in quantitative, or partial as in "preferential", the possessive.

 

Smarty pants.

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

Smarty pants.

Every girl loves one.