(May 4, 2015 at 10:40 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(May 4, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: 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?
You got it!
Yes, sometimes we have to check ourselves and remember that we are humans and subject to making assumptions. Take GC and Professor. I don't know them so I can't make assumptions about what drives them unless they betray this in their words, directly or indirectly. I can however, respond to their words and demand that those words make some kind of sense to me. Knowamsane?*
* know what I'm saying
Hey, you're down with it and I'm up to it
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.