Another case of lost in translation

Last night as the hubby and I were sort of drifting off to sleep, I was telling him about the emerging church article that I wrote. In the course of the conversation I said to him,
"So do you think there is something patently evil about that?"
to which he pauses, and then replies:
"Well, I think there have been patents that have been bought... and patents that have been sold... and some of them are evil....."

And I'm like, PATENTS?! I'm not talking about PATENTS!! I said patent-LY!!!!!! ( breaking out into screeches of late-night laughter)

Him: Patently? What the heck are you using such fancy words for????

I'm still laughing about it today. Those midnight conversations sure can be interesting.