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| When I was in grade school we were taught Synonyms Antonyms and Homonyms.
Are these no longer taught to kids in school?
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| quote: Originally posted by OKCGene:
When I was in grade school we were taught Synonyms Antonyms and Homonyms.
Don't forget Eponym.
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| quote: Originally posted by cne32507:
In a current thread in the Lounge, "breeched" is used instead of the correct "breached"; as in "the fence was breached". Breeched is a word, but may be an anachronism.
That's the past tense of putting your pants on. "I picked up my breeches and then breeched myself." 
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| quote: Originally posted by RogueJSK:
That's the thing... Reading is the best way to build vocabulary.
And what's written today has been dumbed down for the lowest common denominator. I liked fiction stories as a kid right after I learned how to read. But what increased my vocabulary was that, in the Navy, when standing watches, you can't read anything other than technical manuals or the dictionary. Each engine room had the latest Oxford illustrated unabridged dictionary. Reading technical manuals was boring. So I spent a lot of hours perusing the dictionary in between taking engine room readings.
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| quote: When I was in grade school we were taught Synonyms Antonyms and Homonyms.
 Circa the 5th or 6th grade it was made a homework assignment to come up with as many homonyms as we could find. There were literally a ton of them.  Despite rants of my own, I still keep seeing "ordinance" (local level law or regulation) when it should be "ordnance" (military weaponry). |
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| Remember Readers Digest? They had that game, building your word power or some such. If you told a young adult that today they couldn’t even conceive how that could be considered a game.
Technology has uplifted us and hobbled us at the same time. In my hand I can hold the entire collected knowledge of mankind. Yet that doesn’t mean you necessarily understand any of it. That is the conundrum. (see what I did there. he he he)(which is old man for lol) |
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| quote: Originally posted by .38supersig:
Pare a pair of pears?
Well, I too will go to where two pairs of pears are, just to pare them.
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| quote: Originally posted by Mazzer:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by sigfreund:
"mispronounced a word that he had only seen in writing. That’s something I’ve experienced personally many times because I read a lot. Now, though, I suspect the opposite is becoming true more often: hearing a word on the TV or other visual source, but without seeing it in print."
I've often done the same, finding out in a high pressure meeting that "segue" sounds like the thing you ride (Segway).
I've often bemoaned falling literacy rates in this country; especially among youngsters, Just thinking about it makes me feel, well...peaked.
My wife makes fun of me frequently when I do that. Say a word a thousand times in your head only to find out you've been saying it wrong the whole time. That’s a trade off of marrying someone smarter than me I suppose (the ex-wife wouldn’t have known the difference).
Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here.
Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard.
-JALLEN
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| Don’t feel too bad. If you are a big reader then you might have only heard the pronunciation in your head. Think of it like reading sci-fi. The goofy names and such are pronounced however your brain perceives them. Then you go watch GOT and you’re like, oopsie. |
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| quote: Originally posted by V-Tail: quote: GOT
Game of Thrones. aka, Gambit of Thorns 
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| Here we have an example of blatant obfuscation, which will probably be explained next.Obfuscation is best eschewed. |
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Too soon old,
Too late smart
| When you say loose instead of lose enough times it finally becomes proper usage. https://www.cbc.ca/comedy/funn...eady-do-so-1.3808853
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