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« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2010, 11:40:22 AM » |
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Oh, I didn't mean literal, whoops. XD Okay, that was what I was going for. So the sentence would be ironic or something for the listener............................ Ten common Errors "Spell Check" Won't Catch.
I saw "would of" and I hate seeing that around. Man, it's just not RIGHT. D: The infamous your/you're, my most detested error. |
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« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2010, 12:01:51 PM » |
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I don't know if it would be ironic but it would definitely be something that forces the listener to reevaluate the situation without dipping into hyperbole and drama. It's basically the speaker providing a reality check to the listener, and depending on context and how it is delivered, some reassurance that things won't go to pot just because of a little inconvenience.
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All Nature speaks, and ev'n ideal things Flap shadowy sounds from visionary wings — Al Aaraaf, Edgar Allan Poe "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." — The Laughing Man's tagline "Give a man a break and you'll end up broken." — Lina Inverse "The greater the evil, the greater the good that rises from the ruin." — quoted by a speaker in my pre-med club. |
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« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2010, 07:08:06 AM » |
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Ooh, why is it "grateful" and not "greatful"? D: Actually, that's kinda rhetorical, but still.
Like many other English words.
EDIT: Gratitude. Wow.
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« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2010, 10:39:08 AM » |
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You probably figured out the reason on your own, but I was going to say that "grateful" is connected with "gratitude" and it means feeling appreciative of some situation or circumstance. "Greatful" can't even really be a word as far as I can determine. I think it violates some syntax or something.
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All Nature speaks, and ev'n ideal things Flap shadowy sounds from visionary wings — Al Aaraaf, Edgar Allan Poe "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." — The Laughing Man's tagline "Give a man a break and you'll end up broken." — Lina Inverse "The greater the evil, the greater the good that rises from the ruin." — quoted by a speaker in my pre-med club. |
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« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2010, 06:24:40 PM » |
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"Freaken."
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And others I can't name right now.
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« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2010, 10:29:09 PM » |
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I wouldn't mind something like that. The only thing that would irritate me just a bit would be that such things would almost never show up in a dictionary ever. It bugs me that I can't look up a proper spelling or definition for certain things.
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All Nature speaks, and ev'n ideal things Flap shadowy sounds from visionary wings — Al Aaraaf, Edgar Allan Poe "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." — The Laughing Man's tagline "Give a man a break and you'll end up broken." — Lina Inverse "The greater the evil, the greater the good that rises from the ruin." — quoted by a speaker in my pre-med club. |
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« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2010, 09:08:04 PM » |
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Drama =/= dramatized.
And "gratitude" now reminds me of "grate" which does not have the same meaning at all!
"Grate" can mean "to irriate," which is the total opposite, in fact. WTfreak, English! O__O
It's like English Lesson 101.
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« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2010, 09:48:45 PM » |
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"Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets."
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« Reply #23 on: August 06, 2010, 10:31:44 PM » |
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Good quote there, Ryuuko. What's that from?
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All Nature speaks, and ev'n ideal things Flap shadowy sounds from visionary wings — Al Aaraaf, Edgar Allan Poe "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." — The Laughing Man's tagline "Give a man a break and you'll end up broken." — Lina Inverse "The greater the evil, the greater the good that rises from the ruin." — quoted by a speaker in my pre-med club. |
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« Reply #24 on: August 06, 2010, 10:33:55 PM » |
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according to the site I found it on it was Eddy Peters
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« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2010, 11:04:39 PM » |
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Okay.
But getting back to the "gratitude"/"grate" thing: That sounds more like an internal processing error or quirk than it has to do with anything intrinsically wrong or defective about the English language. These two words just happen to have similar beginnings, thus making them linked in the brain from their relative proximity in appearance and with how they might affect each other when one is recalled due to that proximity.
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« Reply #26 on: August 19, 2010, 07:31:50 PM » |
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But English speakers like us know the difference. It's just, we wouldn't think about it. Only foreigners seem to notice things like it.
I guess if I were to learn another language, I'd notice the oddest things. Dx
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« Reply #27 on: August 19, 2010, 09:50:51 PM » |
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Well, that's the thing. When you learn your primary language, you aren't specifically taught by others. You just pick it up because that's what everybody around you is using. But when you learn a second language, presuming that it happens later on in your life, then you actually have to be taught what normally would be an automatic process. That's the reason why non-native speakers notice things that native speakers don't.
Unless they are like me, and just have an inordinate interest in language in general. Then you go out of your way to figure things out.
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« Reply #28 on: September 03, 2010, 07:15:55 PM » |
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Conversation and conservation... lOl, just realized that they both have the same exact letters 'cause a friend stumbled on this world during his presentation today.
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« Reply #29 on: September 06, 2010, 01:34:20 PM » |
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I would like to have heard that linguistic error first hand. What was the presentation about?
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