Have you ever come across someone who uses a word incorrectly or gets offended by a word that they shouldn't be offended by? I'll give an example.

People who get offended when you say that something they like is overrated. Most people use it and hear it so much think that it's a synonym for horrible, when it really means "something that gets too much praise" or "to overestimate something". So when some people say that something's overrated, they're saying that it just doesn't deserve most of the praise it gets, not that it's bad.

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The cool part is that I never get tired of being deceived

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Just because someone's head was chopped off doesn't mean they're dead. That's just silly.

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Niggardly.

I used it completely in context with its real meaning back in my last year of high school and had about five people (none of whom were black), including a teacher, harassing me over it.

They shut up when I guided them to a dictionary.

"It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

Someone wrote a letter to our local newspaper to complain about being called "ma'am." She went into this long and factually-unfounded tirade about how it came from Southern plantations using black slaves as nursemaids and calling them "mammy" which was later shortened to "ma'am."

Whoever called her "ma'am" (from French "ma dame," my lady) probably regretted it afterwards ("I shoulda addressed her as b***h!").

This is in a Southern state, no less.

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