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3:33 PM

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Clever idea!

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5:48 PM

Is Mississippi cake actually a thing in the US?

(basically some kind of chocolate cake with some coffee in it and some embedded chocolate bars)

...given the name, I'm sure it's a thing somewhere in the US. :P

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Well I only found german sites about this cake, and that got me wondering:)

And wikipedia only has Mississippi mud pie. (Which looks like it has a month's worth of calories.)

(And I now definitely want to try it:)

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6:13 PM

It looks really good

There's also coffee cake:

Which I'm sure isn't quite as sweet

I don't particularly like coffee but I'm sure one can replace that with cacao:)

6:31 PM

Coffee cake doesn't actually have any coffee in it :)

It's very yummy. I think it's called that because it goes well with coffee

oh even better:D

6:52 PM

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7:20 PM

Auto-antonym

An auto-antonym or autantonym, also called a contronym, contranym or Janus word, is a word with multiple meanings (senses) of which one is the reverse of another. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This phenomenon is called enantiosemy, enantionymy (enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autantonymy. An enantiosemic term is necessarily polysemic. == Nomenclature == The terms "autantonym" and "contronym" were coined by Joseph Twadell Shipley in 1960 and Jack Herring in 1962, respectively. An auto-antonym is alternatively called an antagonym, Janus word...

This list has me nonplussed

7:41 PM

Literally?

Nathan Merrill

8:06 PM

mississippi mud pie is pretty forgettable honestly. I think it has too many different types of flavors. I'd rather have a brownie + ice cream.

Coffee cake is fantastic

if you are going for a chocolate cake, this is what you want is this cake: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_than_sex_cake

(I've heard so many names for it: Better than sex, death by chocolate, chocolate wet cake, etc)

except for the fruit kinds. Don't go with fruit.

Oh huh, apparently in the UK, coffee cake is like a traditional cake with coffee ice cream, not like the US version

*icing, not ice cream

Dang, now I really want coffee cake

Nathan Merrill

It's pretty easy to make.

8:58 PM

@DJMcMayhem what does nonplussed mean here??

@DJMcMayhem now what is the antonym of auto-antonym?

.... Uhhh synonym?

@flawr Either confused or non-perturbed, not sure which

@DJMcMayhem an autosynonym?

@DJMcMayhem ok thanks

huh, when you say egregious does that mean something positive or negative?

(apparently it can mean both, but so far I only understood it as sometihng positive)

Interesting, I usually think of egregious as negative.

Like excessive or gratuitous. Not necessarily negative, but usually used that way.

Because I first heard about this word in latin (in the context of Gauss' theorema egregium) where it means something like wonderful, amazing.

Oh yeah, them old words don't mean nothing.

9:07 PM

@El'endiaStarman oh what, it actually means something else than I thought it does.

@flawr negative usually

I should have looked it up^^

something unrelated: I noticed that I still have a lot of trouble identifying the english names for the days of the week. I still have to count em every time. And then I noticed I also have the same problem in french.

But it is like one of the first things I (should have) learned in either of those languages

I don't get why my brain doesn't want to accept them:)