vocabulary

[cacian]

do you ever use words you don't understand when you write?

[Ecurb]

Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. (Or something like that.)

[PeterL]

do you ever use words you don't understand when you write?

And what words might those be? :)

[cacian]

And what words might those be? :)

anything.
sometimes I write something and I know it is a word but I don't know the meaning and so I write it anyway assuming I could know it.

[cacian]

Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. (Or something like that.)

Is that alice?
and or is that you?

[YesNo]

I often use words I don't really understand. I get feedback and understand them better.

[PeterL]

anything.
sometimes I write something and I know it is a word but I don't know the meaning and so I write it anyway assuming I could know it.

No, I don't think that I use words that I don't understand, but I have seen the problem.

[cacian]

No, I don't think that I use words that I don't understand, but I have seen the problem.

you have seen the problem. how?

[PeterL]

you have seen the problem. how?

People sometimes use words that just don't fit. On a different forum recently someone asked whether the way he wrote something was suitable. It was something like, "He turned his eyes back to his computer." But that guy had used "reassigned" instead of turned. "He reassigned his eyes to the computer monitor." Or something like that.

A few weeks ago, I used "differenter" in conversation to emphasize the idea, and it did catch attention, but I knew tat it was poor usage.

[cacian]

QUOTE=PeterL;1269507]People sometimes use words that just don't fit. On a different forum recently someone asked whether the way he wrote something was suitable. It was something like, "He turned his eyes back to his computer." But that guy had used "reassigned" instead of turned. "He reassigned his eyes to the computer monitor." Or something like that.

interesting word reassign. I think this verb agrees with an subject object
in other words only things can be reassigned like a paper/work/dissertation is reassigned and not people or moving living things.


A few weeks ago, I used "differenter" in conversation to emphasize the idea, and it did catch attention, but I knew tat it was poor usage.
I like the sound of differenter actually. ;)
how did you use it if you do not mind asking.

[PeterL]

interesting word reassign. I think this verb agrees with an subject object
in other words only things can be reassigned like a paper/work/dissertation is reassigned and not people or moving living things.

Grammatically that use was correct, but the use of "reassign" there is not good usage. I could reassign someone who works in LA to work in Ogden, Utah, so that sort of use is not incorrect, but something has to have been assigned first in order to be reassigned.


I like the sound of differenter actually. ;)
how did you use it if you do not mind asking.

I don't recall exactly how I used it; something like this was differenter than that. Again it was grammatically correct, but "er" is not usually used to form a comparative on multisyllable words. It is not more wrong than is using "more" before an adjective to form the comparative on words that usually take "-er".

[Mohammad Ahmad]

It may be, but no longer it comes all right

[Puff]

I understand the meanings of the words I use , but darn me , I often have to stop & look the word up in the dictionary for the SPELLING.

[cacian]

I understand the meanings of the words I use , but darn me , I often have to stop & look the word up in the dictionary for the SPELLING.

I like the ideas of words that mean nothing. they are placed like neutral subordinate until further changes of writing ideas.

[papayahed]

I like the ideas of words that mean nothing. they are placed like neutral subordinate until further changes of writing ideas.


If the word doesn't mean anything then how do you get your message across to the reader?

[PeterL]

If the word doesn't mean anything then how do you get your message across to the reader?

Even more, if something looks like a word does not convey meaning, then it is not a word. Communicating is the heart of language.