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[bookwyrmkyrie]

sentiment (noun) exaggerated and self-indulgent feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

sentient (adj, used here as a noun) [a being] capable of sensing or feeling : conscious of or responsive to the sensations of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling.

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castrate (verb) remove the testicles of (a male animal or man).

castigate (verb) reprimand (someone) severely.

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neigh

(noun) a characteristic high-pitched sound uttered by a horse

nigh

(adverb) almost

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conciseness

(noun) the quality of giving the relevant or necessary information clearly and in a few words.

consciousness

(noun) the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.

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catapult

(verb) to throw or launch by or as if by a catapult

capitulate

(verb) to cease resisting

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I love when mistaken words create a totally different situation.

mailable (adjective) legally acceptable as mail, as in terms of content, size, or weight.

malleable (adjective) adaptable or tractable.

[bookwyrmkyrie]

That's not the word you meant....

I read a lot of fanfic, and I have been collecting these screenshots of when someone uses *almost* the right word. I promise I'm not making fun of the author, I just really enjoy how silly language is that there can be words so similar that change the meaning so significantly. Today's word is "extradited." Pretty sure they were looking for "extricated"... so close, and yet so far!

[flamingfoxninja]

Aliens are so used to humans wanting to pet the most deadliest creatures they find because PUPPER that they have prepared on every ship with a human crewmate. They have human sitting duties and at least 2 chaperones when going planet-side, just in case they get any ideas.

Then a crew gets a human for the first time and it’s everything like what the Human Care Manual says. The human is loud, but pleasant, always joke around with the crew and was tremendous during that Flokkut Raid on Sector 6. The human even brought a camera with it to take pictures on the ship (it’s bigger than most, downright obnoxious in shape to some of the crew, but the human is happy with it, and a happy human is a bonded human)

So then they go down to a planet, letting the human explore with his chaperones. After walking for a while the group stumbles on a herd of Dwetts, elks with fish eyes and flippers. The aliens sigh cause it was bound to see creatures sooner or later, and turn to give Acceptable Reason #6 from the manual, when the human disappeared! They freak out because how did the human leave??? Does it have invisibility??? That wasn’t part of the manual!! But they hear their human saying “guys, stop moving! You’re going to upset them!”

They look down to see the human lying on his stomach looking through his camera, taking pictures. They were shocked, but did as they were told and sat down. For hours they watched the human taking photos, being as quiet as still as possible. This couldn’t be the same human??

When the human was done, it got up, stretched, and headed back for the ship. The chaperones followed suit. When they got back the captain was surprised that they returned without a creature (even with 2 chaperones, he suspected that the human would win anyway) but was astonished to hear what had happened.

“You didn’t want to take one as these ‘pets’ for the ship??”

“No???? Why would I? They aren’t domesticated, they need space to live which the ship wouldn’t supply.”

“But aren’t they cute in human terms?”

“I mean, I would say more interesting than cute. But seriously, how would we take care of it? How to feed it, groom it, keep away from all the sensitive equipment? It would be dangerous for us and it if we take one from the wild. You really want one that badly?”

“Wha- No! It’s just…you seemed to like them?”

“I mean yeah, it’s a new animal species, and I did take pictures, but not as long as I hoped for. Honestly you have to look at the ecosystem here before getting any animals on board.”

The captain immediately notified the Human Care Committee that their section on animal bonding does not apply to human subclass professional wildlife photographer