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(Message started by: Lycopene on Oct 4^th, 2008, 6:29am)

Title: What 2 words, when written, are always incorrect?
Post by Lycopene on Oct 4^th, 2008, 6:29am

"What 2 words, when written, are always incorrect?"

Does anyone know the answer to this one? I don't know if I'm posting in the wrong forum or not, but I'd definitely like the answer to it. XD

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by Lycopene on Oct 4^th, 2008, 6:32am

Wait... I think I might've answered this myself.

There're two synonyms for Incorrect.

Mistaken and Wrong. Is that the answer?

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by towr on Oct 4^th, 2008, 12:25pm

Something along those lines; although you now have three words that are incorrect however you write them. Incorrect, mistaken and wrong.

One version of this riddle I've heard before simply goes "What word is always spelled wrong".

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by Lycopene on Oct 4^th, 2008, 12:37pm

Ok, thanks. :) Glad to know I was right.

By "two" I think they meant the two synonyms. :D

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by Eigenray on Oct 4^th, 2008, 1:14pm

Ret and croc are in correct... and many other words too, of course.

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by drdyl111 on Oct 4^th, 2008, 1:29pm

[hide]Always and incorrect are "always incorrect"[/hide]

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by Lycopene on Oct 4^th, 2008, 3:58pm

The guy giving me the riddle said this:

"The answer is a necessarily false description of the surface being written on."

So, currently, none of our answers are correct for his version of the riddle...

What do you think you can get out of that?

Now he said this...

Its nothing obscure. You will have said it many times. But you will have rarely read it.

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by Lycopene on Oct 4^th, 2008, 5:15pm

No Words.

I think that's it. Heh. Talking to myself is the only way I can figure out these things. XD

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by towr on Oct 5^th, 2008, 6:53am

"blank" might work. If you write "blank" on a piece of paper, it is no longer a blank piece of paper.

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by rmsgrey on Oct 5^th, 2008, 9:41am

It's notorious that examination papers have "Blank page" or "This page intentionally left blank" on pages that are often also numbered and may well have the name of the examining board in the corner somewhere...

Presumably the logic behind it is to prevent anxious students from worrying that they're missing a chunk of the exam, and so will miss out on potential marks, get a lower grade, and possibly even fail in what teachers trying to motivate the class to study have been emphasising for the last 6 months are the most important exams of their lives...

Anyway, "nothing here" might also work...

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by Lycopene on Oct 5^th, 2008, 10:24am

Yep, I already figured it out. :)

"Blank Page" is exactly it. You're definitely a smart one, sir. Took me a while to figure that one out. ]:

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by Noke Lieu on Oct 7^th, 2008, 12:22am

I like "don't read this"

In that vein, "It's Unreadable" would work.

Title: Re: What 2 words, when written, are always incorre
Post by rmsgrey on Oct 7^th, 2008, 4:15am

"ignore this"