Apropisms

[Kallistero]

A "malapropism" is a misuse of a word. Therefore, an "apropism" must be its opposite, the correct use of a word. But why should such a concept dignify its own word? It's beneath mention! 

Well, what if, for instance:

• Instead of calling someone TALL, you called them LONG
• Instead of saying the 90s, you said the 1900s
• Instead of saying you ORDERED A PIZZA, you said that you SUMMONED A PIZZA 

By the definitions of these terms, they're all technically correct uses, though they might catch someone off guard. These are apropisms. They are a propos terms: totally correct, though maybe not what you expect. Perhaps you already use an apropism or two in your daily life. I know that whenever I'm about to cook something & I stage all of the materials, I don't call them ingredients. I call them sacrifices! 

So here, we can come up with & share apropisms, and maybe we can even use them in our daily lives! Catch your friends off guard, learn some new words, and with enough of them, we could even have our own Melonland dialect