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Unparalleled Misalignments

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149 points ChadNauseam | 1 comments | 05 May 25 01:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.306s | source
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krisoft ◴[05 May 25 11:21 UTC] No.43893791[source]▶
Some of these are very cool and fits their definition exactly. But some others are very forced. Who would think that “fashion” and “taylor” are synonyms? And they are both further synonyms of “fix”? Or in the “Cold Fusion // Cool Cat” pair how would “fusion” be a synonym of “cat”?
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jstanley ◴[05 May 25 11:42 UTC] No.43893957[source]▶
A tailor makes clothes.

To fashion something is to make something. To tailor something is to customise it.

`cat` is a Unix command for concatenating files, which you could argue is fusing them together?

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1. krisoft ◴[05 May 25 13:17 UTC] No.43894810[source]▶
I think you are onto something with ‘tailor’. If we take it as the verb ‘to tailor’ that is the synonym of the ‘to fashion’. Tailor as a profession is not a synonym of the noun ‘fashion’. But it is enough for them to be synonyms in one sense. So that works.

I hear you on ‘cat’ but i wouldn’t call that relationship synonyms.