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

MrJeffooie0 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
848K views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2015-07-26

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.

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

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4 comments from Hacker News

@marcus_holmes2022 · in “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] [VIDEO]

@cadamsdotcom2025 · in “Crypto Sees More Than $6B in Liquidations”

> _literal_ blood on the street You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. [VIDEO]

@stack_framer2025 · in “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: [VIDEO]

@tzs2026 · in “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] [VIDEO]