what word or concept do you routinely use that you poorly misunderstand?

[datasuspect]

for me it would be cassirer's notion of the verticality and horizontality of the sacred and the profane and how christianity informed it.

[Left Is Write]

1. Me too.

[mad-mommy]

2. well with my kids, it's the word "NO"

[Debi]

3. Ha!

:rofl:

[buddhamama]

4. life

:shrug:

[anarch]

5. gravity

I don't think anyone really understands it. I tried ignoring it for a while, but that didn't really work out all too well.

[MrCoffee]

6. gravity is a myth. the earth sucks.

[datasuspect]

7. it's "just" a theory

it's not a fact.

(putting on my pseudoscience cap for that one).

[mainegreen]

8. "Flange"

I misuse that ALL the time.

"Hey, look at that flange!"
"Oi, watch out for that flanging thing there"
"Dammit, I'm stuck on the flange again!"
"So, like, he was flanging all around like a mad man."

[datasuspect]

9. i like that word

[querelle]

10. Irony

Ironic, etc. Can't seem to grasp the real meaning of that word.

Q