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enormous - massive

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Nope.

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this thread = waste of time

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enormous - massive

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I was thinking that one too, but massive can mean "a body that has mass" when referring to objects in the Universe.

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Yes, er, affirmative.

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Not quite.

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If you listen to the postmodernists, words don't even mean the same things as themselves.

Chew on that!

NT

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Yes, er, affirmative.

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Not quite.

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Come on, it's a affirmative or no question.

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Mountain lion is a general term that can include bobcats, but really, they're not the same. Bobcats have short, stubby tails and ear tuffs, mountainn lions have long tails, shorter hair and are much bigger.

That, and a Bobcat can also mean construction equipment.

Regardless and irregardless do mean exactly the same thing, but have different connotations - people who say irregardless sound stupid.

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affirmative - roger that - 10-4

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gigantic - humongous

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Very close, I think. Gigantic can also be used particularly in reference to a giant, so they don't quite match.

Humongous and enormous, perhaps?

EDIT: I checked and there's an archaic definition of enormous as "Very wicked; heinous." Not sure if that really eliminates it or not.

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Maybe if we looked up the latin roots to these wors. Humong and Enor.

I checked and humungous is actually slang. Enormous is dervied from Middle english enormious.