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- wnanhee
- at Jul 29, 10, 05:22:39 AM
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Hey,guys!!!
Considering the fact that I was not born and raised in here and of course English is not my arterial language which to me has always been a challenge...harder than any other languages that I've learned and what makes more difficult is to spell the words correctly even the words I use in daily basis...some words are spelled tricky,some I can't even pronounce them right and definitely hard to memorize them...
So I am going to post at least one word that I've found very difficult and tricky.
I would also like ask my family members to help me to learn words that I might not have known or have learned incorrectly. Thanks in advance!!!
I will start the first one.
vengeance -I used to spell it as vengence until someone corrected me...
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- LhasaLover
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Wow, Wnanhee, I am truly impressed by your English skills then! I've been on these boards for so long I can usually tell when English is not someone's primary language, but I would never have guessed from your postings that it's not. Congrats on a hard language learned well!
Ok, a couple of pet peeves of mine. Easy words to learn & spell, but apparently too hard for many to learn to use correctly.
Lose & Loose
Lose
–verb (used with object)
1. to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery.
2. to fail to win (a prize, stake, etc.): to lose a bet.
....... plus about 20 million other examples.
Loose
–adjective
1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night.
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- blueday
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Yes - I'll agree with you on that one LhasaLover. Even the newspapers spell it wrong sometimes.
Another one is
rogue -
A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
A casino (I added that one)
rouge -
red.
A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.
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Oh my...you both are just too good...
Yes, to all those words...my, my, my...Lose & Loose and rogue & rouge were indeed one of the tricky words that made me confused...(busted!)
Took me la while to learned the differences in spells and meanings. Now you know why I said some words are tricky.
rouge-I don't think I ever used this word before until the movie, Moulin Rouge and started to use it...
Thanks,LH...for being so generous and kind. I have always felt that you are one of the kind and so helpful and knowledgeable in many areas through great posts...you are a terrific and magnificent friend!
Blue...as always, such a wise and an astounding woman that you are...
No wonder why your son is so supreme, talented and charming...hmmm...let's see where he got that from...
You both made me feel so humbled...thanks so much for the words...and for making me feel less embarrassed...you both are great teachers!!! -
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My biggest pet peeve has already been mentioned: Lose/loose.
I think more people misuse these words then those who get it right!
Another pet peeve i have and i'm going a bit off topic is the pronunciation of the state i live in Illinois. Many many people who have been born and raised here will pronounce the "S" on the end when in fact it is silent!
I have to admit my biggest blunder is writing hear/here and one/won. I know the difference but when i am posting or writing like a mad woman i go brain dead and get careless and have to go back in change it!
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Nice post Wnanhee, and i too didn't know your first language wasn't english, you are doing very well..
My two words.. and these have been my most difficult
Affect
af·fect (ə fekt′; for n. 2, af′ekt′)
transitive verb
to have an effect on; influence; produce a change in: bright light affects the eyes
to move or stir the emotions of: his death affected us deeply
Obsolete a disposition or tendency;
an emotion or feeling attached to an idea, object, etc.
in general, emotion or emotional response
to like to have, use, wear, be in, etc.: she affects plaid coats
to make a pretense of being, having, feeling, liking, etc.; feign: to affect indifference
Archaic to aim at; seek
af·fect 1 (ə-fĕktˈ)
To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
noun (ăfˈĕktˌ)
Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language: “The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect” (Norman Mailer).
Obsolete A disposition, feeling, or tendency.
af·fect 2 (ə-fĕktˈ)
transitive verb affected af·fect·ed, affecting af·fect·ing, af·fects
To put on a false show of; simulate: affected a British accent.
a. To have or show a liking for: affects dramatic clothes.
b. Archaic To fancy; love.
To tend to by nature; tend to assume: a substance that affects crystalline form.
To imitate; copy: “Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language” (Ben Jonson).
Effect
ef·fect (-fkt) n.
1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
3. A scientific law, hypothesis, or phenomenon: the photovoltaic effect.
4. Advantage; avail: used her words to great effect in influencing the jury.
5. The condition of being in full force or execution: a new regulation that goes into effect tomorrow.
6.
a. Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general design or intention: The lighting effects emphasized the harsh atmosphere of the drama.
b. A particular impression: large windows that gave an effect of spaciousness.
c. Production of a desired impression: spent lavishly on dinner just for effect.
7. The basic or general meaning; import: He said he was greatly worried, or words to that effect.
8. effects Movable belongings; goods.
tr.v. ef·fect·ed, ef·fect·ing, ef·fects
1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1.
Idiom:
in effect
In essence; to all purposes: testimony that in effect contradicted her earlier statement.
Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of “to influence” (how smoking affects health). Effect means “to bring about or execute”: layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about. -
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Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of “to influence” (how smoking affects health). Effect means “to bring about or execute”: layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.
I agree..affect and effect are most confusing for me too. I understood affect as the verb and effect as the noun. So, with the above example...I would've written 'layoffs designed to affect savings.' X WRONG! X..no more lifelines for me and I'd be outta the game. I dont even know what the hell a transitive verb is.
And to complicate things further...Affect, in science/ medicine, is a noun...meaning emotion/ mood. Persons with 'blunted affect' or 'flat affect' have little to no emotional response/ reactivity.
English is way confusing...
If something is horrible, its horrific.
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Recognize a transitive verb when you see one.
A transitive verb has two characteristics. First, it is an action verb, expressing a doable activity like kick, want, paint, write, eat, clean, etc. Second, it must have a direct object, something or someone who receives the action of the verb.
Here are some examples of transitive verbs:
Sylvia kicked Juan under the table.
Kicked = transitive verb; Juan = direct object.
Just for you ish
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Well i guess im understanding that Affect is the action, and Effect is in describing the doing?
The judges descion to incarcerate the offender had no emotional affect for the accused, the descion remains in effect immediately.
Is this a correct sentence?
'emotional affect' would be doubling up as 'affect' already means emotion/ mood...so emotional affect would be emotional emotion...
Perhaps you were trying to say?..
The judge's decision to incarcerate the offender, to be effective immediately, had no effect on the offender's affect.
But honestly, I am as confused as anyone else. English is my third language. I was in remedial English courses in grade school...in college, I was required to take introductory English/ writing course while my colleagues excelled in advance writing classes. So I don't whats write or wrong. haha
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Here is two more words that I had such a hard time memorizing them correctly...took me a while.
MINUSCULE(noun)---
1. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
2. a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
MINUSCULE (adjective)---
1. of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
2. lowercase
3. very small
SUPERSEDE(verb)---
1. to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
2.to set aside or cause to be set aside as void, useless, or obsolete, usually in favor of something mentioned; make obsolete: They superseded the old statute with a new one.
3.to succeed to the position, function, office, etc., of; supplant.
Now...this was the most confusing part of the word...
supersedable (adjective)
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Good ole borderline me. My name is pronounced with an O like in Tom.
If you see it though, you will forever call me OH-Marie.
And half the people will spell it O'Marie.
I got an award in high school and they called out my name- "Kinman O'Maury". I felt really crappy.
It's Omarie, was my grandma's name, came from "Omree", one of her grandmothers, which came from King Omri in the Old Testament.
Not Armory, OHmarie, Ommaweewee, Ornery...
I lost the city-wide spelling bee from spelling WORF instead of WHARF. Shoulda asked for a definition and told them I have prescience and they would know who Worf was soon enough. haha -
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talk about name...ha ha ha...
People call me nan the banana, nan tuckett, nan the Indian bread, nana. nanny, etc...eww...
The above names are not as bad as...when people ask my name and I have to keep repeat it as they spell it as MAN especially when I go to coffee shop, or restaurants, they always put my name down as MAN. :'( -
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If i were to see the word minuscule, without knowing its defintion, i would think of it like its small man, something that is less then masculine, small in idea, or character of being..
Its the word minus that would give me hint, but i wouldn't as in lettering scripts because of the other part being "cule" ..
Strange how words can do this
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I had a friend who could not pronounce Jalapena,she would say " Joll-low-pah-lean-yo" peppers. OY!
Some people from the south say "NutNEG" instead of NutMEG....(Ok ok, its my parents,well spoken, educated,BUT I still cant make them stop it,SHEESH)
And why did my sister always end a letter with "Yours turly"?! -
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LMAO
My Papa told me last night, when I told him about my husband
"Make sure he gets to the Dr. and they check him for blood CLOGS"
I know what he meant, he always says the words wrong, and his spelling is horrid..
Dert= Dirt
Busch= Bush
lol I remember seeing a shopping list for Home Depot, and those were on it.
God I him.
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I have a hard time pronouncing the word Turtle
It's like a say churtle some say it sounds like i say twurtle.. i can say it if i hear it before it's spoke but unexpectantly for me to say it, it doesn;t come out right, all my friends laugh at me, if you guys were to hear it you'd die of laughter, it's embarrassing though lol -
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My husband says breasteses just to irritate me because he thinks that is cute. My other husband used to say I was all moisty which got just the opposite result of the breasteses word and multiplied that moisty feeling because it was so cute. I think he really thought that was a real word.
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I say y'all instead of youse guys.
I used to have a friend that always pronounced "mine" like "Mayan". I don't think she said "Urine" for "yours", though, y'all... I really grew to hate "Mayan".
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My nephews wife is going to Cosmotology school and will do our hair at times,my mother wanted a cellaphane color put in her hair so while on the phone with my nephew(her grandson) she told him to ask his wife if she could put a "cellaphane" in her hair,he says hold on Nana,then she hears him yell to his wife "Tia, can you put a styrofoam in Nana's hair"? Geez
I called them Umber-rellas when I was a kid.
I used to be a 411 operator years ago, once I think I was trying to tell a caller that I was not finding a listing they asked for, and it came out ALL wrong,I believe I was attempting to say;"I'm sorry I am not GETTING a listing", AND I'm sorry I am not SHOWING a listing" Well I got all tongue tied and combined the words SHOWING and GETTING and it came out......."I'm sorry I am not SHITTING a listing" OMG I am so glad the caller was not really paying attention and no supervisers were listening in!!
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