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Princess Bride, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

MrJeffooie
Comedy
YouTube
Cited on HN 4 times, 2022–2026, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Commenters post it as a joke reply when someone misuses a word or term.

A short clip of Inigo Montoya's line from The Princess Bride, 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.' It has no educational content beyond the film quote.

4 jokes · Comedy

4 Hacker News comments

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@marcus_holmes Jan 2022 Makes a joke
on HN thread Disambiguating the ‘Observable Universe’
> And the Hubble constant is decreasing: the relative velocities of celestial objects are (on average) growing more slowly than the distances between them. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [0] [0] [this video]
@stack_framer Dec 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread Rob Reiner has died
I can't believe people voted me down for this! It's a direct quote from the movie, after Vizzini uses the word "inconceivable" you warthog-faced buffoons: [this video]
@tzs May 2026 Makes a joke
on HN thread The Website Specification
Nearly 80% of the commentators who have mentioned slop appear to be people who have the same relationship with the the word "slop" that Vizzini had with "inconceivable" [1]. [1] [this video]

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