The thread of learning something new every day

booboo

@Nepia said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:

And don't get me started on "acronym"... although I hate to admit defeat, I 'm starting to think the dictionaries should just fucking surrender and update the definition of that word to mean what every fluffybunny thinks it means.

So, again, I had to look up the definition of the word to see if I had it wrong. I don't - so how is it being misused?

The one that got me was ironical. I would hear people using it and think 'how ironic'. Then I discovered. Ironical is an actual word. That means ironic. Go figure....

Acronym - most people use it in place of the correct word - "initialism".
eg: FBI - is NOT an acronym. Because it's pronounced "Eff-Bee-Aye"... spelling out the letters. It's an initialism.
But POTUS - IS an acronym (AND an initiatlism) - because it's pronounced as a "word" - this being the key bit that people ignore.
NZRU - initialism, not acronym.
Laser - acronym, and initialism.
Oh - and I think the definitions are subtly different in various dictionaries, but to my understanding - an acronym is not ALWAYS an initialism.
eg: Benelux - IS an acronym, but NOT an initialism.

Do we have a pedant award in the Fernies, if so you're a lock this year against the your/you're crowd.

I do believe that when words meanings change that dictionaries are slow to change them, despite the fact they're less than 200 years old and had constant shitfights over meanings when they were being developed. I think it's somewhat silly to hold on to a historical definition if the meaning has clearly changed. No doubt I will be a hypocrite and will argue the opposite for a word I like in the future.

Deep down I'm resigned to "your" being adopted in place of "you're". But I shall verse it while I can.

I'm also pretty sure I can manage to pronounce most of @Kruse 's initialisms as words, I.e., Fibby, Nisroo ...

booboo

@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@Kruse yeah so I only learned (learnt?) this one a couple of years ago...

Nauseous vs. Nauseated: What’s the Difference?

I think this is like spelled and spelt, which, google tells me, are both correct, but may be more correct depending on which country you are in.

Victor Meldrew

@Tim said in The thread of learning something new every day:

While you're at it on this topic, the next person who posts "dribble" when they mean "drivel" will be banned permanently.

Is that not a bit pedantical?

Victor Meldrew

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with "Bilge"

booboo

Anyway ... to digress (regress?*) back to the thread topic, found thus interesting:

Stuff

- sorry, tongue and cheek there.

P.S. the spelling of Reinga in the hyperlink needs some love

P.P.S. I'm sure we've got threads on mis-use of phrases and sayings ...

booboo

Well goddammit, Sunday morning rabbit holes ...

https://www.econtentpro.com/blog/commonly-misused-phrases-and-expressions/56

Wrong Usage: “The spitting image”
Right Usage: “The spit and image”

Who knew?

Kirwan

@voodoo said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@voodoo I had to check to see if I had the correct understanding.

I did

You kids' obviously didn't get a proper education.

I asked my wife and the 4 people in my team - we all had it the wrong way!

I feel like I might be the butt of some elaborate prank here...

Fuck. Me too.

Nepia

@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@Nepia said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:

And don't get me started on "acronym"... although I hate to admit defeat, I 'm starting to think the dictionaries should just fucking surrender and update the definition of that word to mean what every fluffybunny thinks it means.

So, again, I had to look up the definition of the word to see if I had it wrong. I don't - so how is it being misused?

The one that got me was ironical. I would hear people using it and think 'how ironic'. Then I discovered. Ironical is an actual word. That means ironic. Go figure....

Acronym - most people use it in place of the correct word - "initialism".
eg: FBI - is NOT an acronym. Because it's pronounced "Eff-Bee-Aye"... spelling out the letters. It's an initialism.
But POTUS - IS an acronym (AND an initiatlism) - because it's pronounced as a "word" - this being the key bit that people ignore.
NZRU - initialism, not acronym.
Laser - acronym, and initialism.
Oh - and I think the definitions are subtly different in various dictionaries, but to my understanding - an acronym is not ALWAYS an initialism.
eg: Benelux - IS an acronym, but NOT an initialism.

Do we have a pedant award in the Fernies, if so you're a lock this year against the your/you're crowd.

I do believe that when words meanings change that dictionaries are slow to change them, despite the fact they're less than 200 years old and had constant shitfights over meanings when they were being developed. I think it's somewhat silly to hold on to a historical definition if the meaning has clearly changed. No doubt I will be a hypocrite and will argue the opposite for a word I like in the future.

Deep down I'm resigned to "your" being adopted in place of "you're". But I shall verse it while I can.

I'm also pretty sure I can manage to pronounce most of @Kruse 's initialisms as words, I.e., Fibby, Nisroo ...

See you've shown me up to be a hypocrite already as I fully agree we must fight it.

dogmeat

@booboo me

Bones

Bones

That's Carla Gugino.

Bovidae

@Bones And the other women is Keri Russell.

Bones

Huh, I'd never heard dwelt until today, I've always used dwelled. Go figure.

In American English, the past tense and past participle of dwell is usually dwelled. In varieties of English from outside North America, dwelt is the preferred form.