by compound complex 182 Replies latest jw friends
The word Scan has always slightly confused me.
it can mean to examine closely, i.e., an MRI scan was done, or it can mean to quickly and superficially look at something, i.e., to scan the paper. Both meanings seemingly the opposite of each other.
Also, elicit; as in to elicit a reaction, and illicit as in illegal.
And if you ever fancy a good book on the English language, Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue is well worth a read.
One passage from there has always stuck in my mind. He was describing why computers traditionally struggle to translate English and he use two sentences as an example;
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
:D
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana. -- Landy
COOL!
Hello.
Right. Write. Wright.
The gifted playwright injured his left hand quite badly in an unfortunate accident; thereafter, he suffered much in his endeavor to write with his right.
One that I re- learned on yesterday: Chiasm. Looks like chasm to the untrained eye, but means a literary device employed by some Bible writers.
I'm still working on one for the Aaronic Benediction
Thanks, Doug Mason.
Sylvia
crews (teams)
cruz (cross, in Spanish)
cruise (ocean-bound trip)
cruse (earthenware vessel, as in the OT "widow's cruse")
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invade (overrun, infiltrate)
inveighed (railed against, with hostility)
Affect and Effect ....always have to think twice when writing those words in a sentence.
Excuse.
I have to bore you with your and you're, but the misuse is a plague.
Also their, they're and there.
All too commonly screwed up.
Oh, yeah!
Another one, stillin:
The diminutive but quick-witted boy quashed all the verbal arrows slung his way with snappy rejoinders. (not squashed)
A little off-topic.
I could care less, which means you DO care.
I couldn't care less, which means you DO NOT care - this one is proper.
Collision/collusion, former, to slam into something; latter, to come together for a nefarious purpose.
Sylvia
Thanks, Syl:
What you posted is well within parameters!
Just like the misuse of "begging the question" (not raising the question, but asking for proof of the assertion), and misspelling of "just deserts" (not "desserts").
