(May 4, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(May 4, 2015 at 9:32 am)Stimbo Wrote: Or you could explain it.
Olay. I haven't studied the Urban Dictionary lately, but I'll give it my best shot.
Overstand is a play on the word understand.
Wow - really?
(May 4, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Under-over. What it means basically is to see through the other person's game and understand more than they intended you too.
So it means understand, in an emphatic sense. I'm down with neologisms and portmanteaus, as long as we're on the same page with the definition.
As to the usage of the word - how can you verify that the other person's game is actually a game and that your understanding of their meaning and intent isn't merely in your head?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
