Is there a technical name for the play on words where someone would substitute a word for a similar one (or add a common word to the end of one) in order to express their opinion about the subject in question?  For example:   Not being a fan of Facebook's privacy rules, and calling the site Facecrook instead Feeling that people are too lazy to search before posting here, so calling this site "Slack Exchange" Calling a Didgeridoo a "Didgeridont" because you can't stand the sound it makes   The closest things I could find were a "sniglet" and a "protologism", but I'm not sure if they're it. Any thoughts?
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What is the term for when one replaces a well-known name [(Proper) noun, company, brand, etc.] with one that tries to be funny yet pejoratively descriptive, different but similar enough that one's audience can likely understand the replacement?  For example: Whole Foods ===> Whole Paycheck; Comcast ==> Scumcast; Starbucks ==> Charbucks; Kinko's == Stinko's; eBay ==> Evil Bay  I tend to use sobriquet don't believe this explicitly implies funny as well as insulting. Moniker again is close but not specific to the above description.  There is a similar question which proposes tortonym and malapropsim, but it does not seem to settle the argument definitively:   Another answer here proposes dysphemism, but to me it isn't a full fit:  because it doesn't cover the humor aspect.
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When two phrases are pronounced alike but have different spelling and meaning, can we call them homophones?  e.g. "ice-cream" and "I scream", "nitrate" and "night rate", "that's tough" and "that stuff".  Or is there another term for them?  What linguistic phenomenon distiguishes these near homophones?  I've checked the putative duplicate at  but it isn't exactly what I'm asking here.
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Can anyone point me to a (more or less) complete list of English paronyms (affect/effect, farther/further, alternately/alternatively, interested/interesting, corrupted/corrupt, adopt/adapt, continuous/contiguous...)?  Wikipedia has a list for everything, but . Google is not exceptionally helpful, either. After trying out half a dozen different search strings, I have learned quite a lot about French, German, and even Russian paronyms, but close to nothing about English ones.  Any pointers?
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I'm looking for a single word synonym of evasion, fudging or dodging the question that does not imply deceit in the answer (apart from possible awareness of the respondent that they are not actually answering the question, and perhaps an intent to divert the questioner to other topics).  Answers could be verbose or blunt non-sequiturs.  This is similar but not identical to "What do you call a response which does not address the question?" There answers have other connotations, such as a word or phrase for an inappropriate response (such as a "non sequitur"). This is a new question, which differs particularly in that I'm looking for a word that does not imply an intention to deceive.
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I am trying to think of a word used to describe someone who is intentionally oversimplifying an argument by making a statement that is technically true, but ignores a lot of issues. Its an adjective similar to describing the person as being intentionally obtuse or too clever for their own good.
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Is there such a thing in the English language as words or phrases that can mean a something or its opposite depending on the context in which they are employed, without the use of sarcasm?   If so, how are they named?
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In the board game "Scotland Yard" one player attempts to thwart capture by the others through misleading them as to his true whereabouts. In the rules, this player is referred to as "Mr. X".  Saying this out loud sounds a lot like "Misdirects" - which is what the player is trying to do.  On learning this, I became curious if there was a single word for this particular form of word-play, where the phonetics of a group of words reminds us of a different word or phrase. It's not uncommon, after all.  Wikipedia lists it as:     Janusism: the use of phonetics to create a humorous word (e.g. BOREneo   from Borneo))   But the link indicates there's no article for this work and indeed a search returns very limited results that are relevant, none of which appear to be from dictionaries. Which makes it entirely plausible the existing articles all derive from Wikipedia.  Is Janusism the word for this kind of word-play? If not, is there one, and what is it?
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Of late, I have been noticing a lot of casual memes floating around, particularly on Facebook, that involve this phrase. Typical constructs could be like the following examples:     B*&amp;^%$# be like...I need a break.      Niner fans be like...but we won five times!      Liberals be like...I hate guns.   I understand these are strictly informal constructs. But I'd need a native speaker's (American English because most such memes seem to originate in the US) take on:   how casual these phrases are, i.e. if they can be used in semi-formal fiction writing? how this usage originate and if it has any affiliation to a particular dialect group, e.g. Midwest, African-American, Southern American, etc.
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I'm looking for a word that has the same meaning as "plagiarism" but in relation to plagiarized ideas only, i.e. not related to writing, art work, drawing etc.
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Consider this conversation:      John: I am giving free chess lessons.   Mary: Nice! You’re a true teacher.   John: How so?   Mary: A true teacher imparts knowledge without a price tag.   John: But what if teaching is his only source of income? Would he not be a “true” teacher then?   Mark (in response to the question above): You clearly mentioned “free chess lesson”.   I don’t see how Mark’s comment adds anything to the discussion or makes sense in the current discussion. It is “redundant” — that’s one word for it — but is there a more fitting word?
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Imagine a scenario where Jim provides a piece of information to Sue. Jim believes this information to be true and correct, but is later proven to be mistaken. Some might say that Jim lied to Sue. I believe this to be the wrong word, because the misinformation was unintentional.  Is there a better word for this type of unintentional "lie"?
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There's a million examples of this, but the one that comes to mind is "smoke shop" with images of pipes in place of the "S"s, like this:     Is there a word for this? (It's not a rebus!)  I often see it in lazy or sometimes terrible graphic design. "Visual pun" comes close, but in many cases there doesn't seem to be any punning at all, or maybe they're just unfunny. In the worst cases, the word is rendered nearly incomprehensible or ambiguous.  More examples, all of which are fairly "punny". (I can't find any examples of the unfunny/downright-incomprehensible ones, sorry.)
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Is there a verb which means the same as "to dumb down" or "to make milder", in relation to an account of something I had witnessed? More specifically, a verb which describes telling your account of something you witnessed in a milder form so as to not scare the other person and "play down" the event.
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What term describes a non-offensive substitute for a swear word?   For example, Battlestar Galactica used frack instead of fuck. Another example is the use of snap instead of shit.  I think I may have heard a single-word term used to describe such alternate non-offensive words before, but I don’t know what it is.
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I am looking for words that convey similar meaning to the following: 'whoopee', 'yeah', 'yahoo', when such words are used as exclamations of joy or excitement, as in :     'Whoopee! Hammertime!'       'Yeah! Holidays!'       'Yahoo! School's out!'   Perhaps in this type of usage 'synonym' is not the correct term, and I hope what I am asking is in any case clear.  In addition, very localised or period-specific words are very much okay (as long as you can reference it). For example, perhaps in 18th century Bordeaux people shouted "Mercante!" to mean the same thing.
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What do you call words that share the same root (e.g., "network", "networks", "networking"). Also, does the shortest one of them have a specific name (e.g., "network")?
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I'm looking for a way to idiomatically express the sentiment that just because you give something a different name, or precede it with a disclaimer, it doesn't change what it is, e.g.:   "I mean this as constructive criticism, not an insult, but ..."  "I'm not racist, but ..." "With all due respect ..."