Saying 'obtuse' when you mean 'abstruse'

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ts: abstruse vs. tortuous

Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Friday, 7 August 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Actually, those aren't exactly the same thing. Torturous implies length whil abstruse implies depth

Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Friday, 7 August 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link

TorTUOUS

I was just thinking that it's funny when people mix up tortuous and torturous, and than I typed the wrong word

Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Friday, 7 August 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link

OMG! Now I know why I used to misuse obtuse! Thanks ILX. I heart you even more. haha

Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Abstruse should mean "has a rock-hard six-pack."

The Love Song of J Alfred Pluot (Oilyrags), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link

I was just thinking that it's funny when people mix up tortuous and torturous, and than I typed the wrong word

lol!

free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link


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