Avoid homonym mistakes and look smarter
Malay / melee (or melée)
Meddle / Medal
Razed / Raised
Razed / Raised
Who's versus whose is a pet peeve of mine.
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I just saw these used on the forum:
Weather instead of Whether
Mute instead of Moot i.e. moot point (actually, they sound different when said so I'm not sure how they're confused).
Weather instead of Whether
Mute instead of Moot i.e. moot point (actually, they sound different when said so I'm not sure how they're confused).
I worked on military stuff for YEARS without knowing that "hanger" and "hangar" are different things. I wrote the former when I meant the latter likely no less than two thousand times. I must've looked like the biggest moron in the room.
Don't make my mistake.
Don't make my mistake.
Stationery / Stationary
I've definitely been guilty of that one.
I've definitely been guilty of that one.
Quote: (09-27-2014 11:50 AM)game_ethic Wrote:
Quote: (09-21-2014 02:25 PM)Sp5 Wrote:Those two words are the same. The former is just British English and the latter is American English. They don't really qualify as homonyms.
Quote: (09-21-2014 12:59 PM)Sp5 Wrote:
glamourize / glamorize.
I meant to write glamourise / glamorize
Yeah that was my point, they are the same. If you go to my original post I was responding to a question by Brodiaga, whom I believe is not a native English speaker, but I botched my point originally:
http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-40325-...#pid835273
dissent / descent / decent
Quote:Sp5 Wrote:Ah, didn't see that. My apologies.
Yeah that was my point, they are the same. If you go to my original post I was responding to a question by Brodiaga, whom I believe is not a native English speaker, but I botched my point originally:
http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-40325-...#pid835273
dissent / descent / decent
These are actually all homophones and not homonyms.
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Homonym_vs_Homophone
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Homonym_vs_Homophone
Quote: (09-28-2014 01:01 PM)texas Wrote:
These are actually all homophones and not homonyms.
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Homonym_vs_Homophone
I knew I should have titled this "Avoid homo mistakes and look smarter"
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Meddle / Medal
and mettle.
Quote: (08-18-2016 12:05 PM)dicknixon72 Wrote:
...and nothing quite surprises me anymore. If I looked out my showroom window and saw a fully-nude woman force-fucking an alligator with a strap-on while snorting xanex on the roof of her rental car with her three children locked inside with the windows rolled up, I wouldn't be entirely amazed.
Ok, we'll just continue with the homophones as if I didn't make a mistake making me look dumber.
Just saw this in a comment elsewhere:
"bare in mind"
bear / bare
Just saw this in a comment elsewhere:
"bare in mind"
bear / bare
corps / core / corpse
causes some confusion, i.e. Obama's referring to Navy "corpsemen"
causes some confusion, i.e. Obama's referring to Navy "corpsemen"
Berth / Birth
Borne / Born
Borne / Born
True homonym: pool / pool
Area in which people swim versus another name for billiards.
Area in which people swim versus another name for billiards.
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Homonym / Hominem (as in Ad Hominem argument)
b / be
c / see
o / oh
r / are
u / you
y / why
Text message shorthand drives me up the wall. Even my mother, 60 years old, uses this shit. If you are over age twelve and too lazy to spell a 3-letter word, prepare to be dealt with like a twelve year old. A former close friend, with whom I've not spoken in five years, wrote me out of the blue last spring. Not a text message. Full transcript of his enquiry: "r u alive?" This is a thirty-four year old grown man, college educated, fully employed, a home-owner, and with a wife and two children. What is most perplexing is how a grown man would assume that sort of message would garner a responce from anyone.
c / see
o / oh
r / are
u / you
y / why
Text message shorthand drives me up the wall. Even my mother, 60 years old, uses this shit. If you are over age twelve and too lazy to spell a 3-letter word, prepare to be dealt with like a twelve year old. A former close friend, with whom I've not spoken in five years, wrote me out of the blue last spring. Not a text message. Full transcript of his enquiry: "r u alive?" This is a thirty-four year old grown man, college educated, fully employed, a home-owner, and with a wife and two children. What is most perplexing is how a grown man would assume that sort of message would garner a responce from anyone.
a part - apart
formally - formerly
alot - a lot (I admittedly wrote this one for a while)
physical - fiscal
formally - formerly
alot - a lot (I admittedly wrote this one for a while)
physical - fiscal
just saw a misuse of wreak / reek , which earlier Windom pointed out, in a comment.
Not wreak of desperation, reek of desperation.
Not wreak of desperation, reek of desperation.
Sleight / Slight
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