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  • #1

    Can you roll this test?

    Apparently,people's education level on basic English is failing miserably compared to previous generations.
    In a recent survey,79% of people could not successfully name all the opposites to these everyday English words.Surely you're more intelligent than them...

    1.Always
    2.Coming
    3.From
    4.Take
    5.Me
    6.Down

    "Never gonna let you down,never gonna run around and desert you"
    Last edited by Kit-Ginevra; 09-04-2017, 09:17 PM.
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    Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
    Surely you're more intelligent than them...
    I am. And don't call me Shirley.

    But I hope you're kidding.

    Then again, based on some comments sections I've read, people don't seem to know the difference between:

    1. there, their, and they're,
    2. sail, sell, and sale,
    3. your and you're.
    4. choose and chose
    5. loose and lose
    6. role and roll
    7. it's and its
    8. two, too, and to
    9. whether and weather
    10. write and right
    11. Quite and Quiet
    12. Quite and quit (and vice versa)

    etc.

    So many Word Crimes...

    I even have a t-shirt that I purchased recently that says, "Irony is writing your an idiot."

    But are we really surprised? With textspeak and such, it doesn't really surprise me.
    Last edited by mjr; 09-04-2017, 10:52 PM.
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    • #3
      In reverse order:

      - I feel obliged to pimp "The Chaos" once again.

      - Well played. *golfclap*
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      • #4
        a. breaks, brakes
        b. license, licence
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        • #5
          ... damnit, rolled again.
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          • #6
            - breath, breathe
            - lightning, lightening (the former: a natural event; the latter: a rough synonym for brightening. it doesn't help that a video game from the 90's was called "Lightening Force" x.x)
            "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
            "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
            "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
            "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
            "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
            "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
            Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
            "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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            • #7
              Differences between an effect, an affect, to effect, and to affect

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              • #8
                Stake, steak

                Isn't 'license' American and 'licence' British?
                Figers are vicious I tell ya. They crawl up your leg and steal your belly button lint.

                I'm a case study.

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                • #9
                  Quoth EricKei View Post
                  - lightning, lightening (the former: a natural event; the latter: a rough synonym for brightening. it doesn't help that a video game from the 90's was called "Lightening Force" x.x)
                  Only the latter was in a standard spell-check dictionary in the late 80s and early 90s... I had an argument with my office-mate about that one day, he had used it as the password for the system "zeus" in our office.
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                  The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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                  • #10
                    NP: Wow. Somebody at the spellchecker factory dun fucked up -- especially if the former was not present. They're both perfectly legitimate words; they simply have unrelated meanings
                    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                    Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                    "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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