I'd swap those.
'Orient' or 'Orientate'?
Does 'orientate' have an unnecessary extra syllable? Yes. Does that make it not a real word? No.
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I'd swap those.
'Orient' or 'Orientate'?
Does 'orientate' have an unnecessary extra syllable? Yes. Does that make it not a real word? No.
I feel the same about "preventative" for "preventive". "Preventive" is fine. We don't need a superfluous syllable.
The noun is "prevention", and the verb is "prevent", so where is the extra syllable coming from? We don't say "preventate" or "preventation".
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I didn’t claim that my irritations were based on correct or incorrect English but because I was brought up with “orientate “ meaning how things were aligned and “orient” meaning from the east, the use of “orient” in place of “orientate “ just sounds incorrect. Such is my cultural heritage.I'd swap those.
'Orient' or 'Orientate'?
Does 'orientate' have an unnecessary extra syllable? Yes. Does that make it not a real word? No.
It's more than just them.
Imagine a bunch of software developers in a professional environment saying that and the F-word. It happened most anywhere I worked in Philly.
I saw someone else put "Y'all", which I've also used, but not many know "You-ins".
Wait a minute. They're the same?😵💫 I thought one was a noun and the other an adjective.
👍👍👍 I'm OG.👨🦳 I don't use those new fangled words. [CURMUDGEON]And bring back the thorn character. That's the way it was and we liked it.👴👴[/CURMUDGEON]
Then, you must use "inflammable". I still remember when they changed it to "flammable" because people thought "inflammable" meant that it was impossible to catch fire.
I þink the curmudgeonating in this þread is amusing.
Indeed I do.🤗 But only when referring to fabric though.
Listening to kids talk today, I have no idea what they're saying. The words are English, but wut?! It's almost as if I have aphasia.😬
Kids give me the same blank stare when I have them read Chaucer.🤷♂️ To be fair I don't make them read the original text, but the translated version. I have rough time of reading Middle English myself.
A passionate and profound amen to this post - very well said; I agree with every single example that you have posted.
Amen to the above.
Bravo, bliss, just wonderful.
Don't forget "pre-prepare". It has already been "pre-pared'. You can't do it twice...
Although there is a case for re-return, for when you have taken something back to the shop to get fixed, and they give it back to you with the same or a different fault. In those cases, some angst or gentle language may also be involved.
speaking of the F-word - as someone was - Flammable, Fokker, etc
reminded me of my deceased mother's favourite saying …
how do you make an old lady swear?
sing out 'bingo' …
reminded me of my deceased mother's favourite saying …
how do you make an old lady swear?
sing out 'bingo' …
Well, English is a stupid language. There are so many words with multiple meanings! Not being bilingual, I don't know it it's just as bad in other languages.
It can be quite hard to call a winner.
Flour and flower are clearly different words. And English speakers recognise the difference. Dutch uses Bloem for both. And, not being a Dutch speaker, I wonder how they work out which is meant.
But is the separation of meanings in English better or worse than the two meanings for one word in Dutch?
It's the spelling that gets my goat. Pneumonia, mnemonic, knife, gnome, cnidarians is all pronounced with the n sound. Psoriasis, tsunami, heir, wrestle, aisle, pterodactyl and so on.
You have a goat? 😆
I rarely hear tsunami pronounced correctly. It's a Japanese word where people forget to say the "t".
Just like that, there was an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude in the Pacific Ocean near Humboldt County, California and they raised a tsunami alert.
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In Japanese, there are many words with different characters that sound the same, such as bridge and chopsticks. You might be thinking "bridge" doesn't sound anything like "chopsticks", but in Japanese, they are both "hashi". Bridge is 橋 and chopsticks are 箸 but both can be written as the sounds はし.
It's an idiom. It means to greatly annoy.
Idioms are my favorite things in the English language. It's such a colorful way of expressing thing that makes no sense to non-English speakers. Cat got your tongue? Grinds my gear. Lights are on, but nobody is home. I would like to meet the people who came up with such clever turn of phrase.
So does Hashimoto derive from bridge or chopsticks or something else or am I making absolutely no sense?
Please let it be "motorized chopsticks", please pleeeez.
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Dang it.
Hashimoto (surname) - Wikipedia
Hashimoto means the strength at the base of the bridge. It was a military title, like all the names that end in "moto".
It's just so easy sometimes. 😆
You should have heard me do that in person to someone while playing the innocent foreigner.
Then, there was the person telling me about god, pointing up, and I was inspecting the ceiling above us.
I don't believe that there are motorized chopsticks but there are motorized forks.Please let it be "motorized chopsticks", please pleeeez.
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Dang it.
Hashimoto (surname) - Wikipedia
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If you hurt yourself with a motorized fork, did you just fork yourself? 😆