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I am always tempted. Like some of the writers in these Forums... I have developed a debatable habit.
That of fetching obscure nouns and adjectives from the dustiest dictionaries on the bookshelf!
While I cannot deny that indulging in the practice satisfies my intellect; when I do, I do wonder if actual ideas are being conveyed.
The English language is potentially the most evocative on the planet.
But if my targeted readers just scroll past for lack of a hand-held thesaurus...what's the point?
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Originally posted by @wolfe63Fear not sir, some of us always have a hand-held thesaurus upon our personage.
I am always tempted. Like some of the writers in these Forums... I have developed a debatable habit.
That of fetching obscure nouns and adjectives from the dustiest dictionaries on the bookshelf!
While I cannot deny that indulging in the practice satisfies my intellect; when I do, I do wonder if actual ideas are being conveyed.
The English languag ...[text shortened]... ut if my targeted readers just scroll past for lack of a hand-held thesaurus...what's the point?
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Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke😀 Indeed...pretense is more fun!
Fear not sir, some of us always have a hand-held thesaurus upon our personage.
To hell with Orwell's Rules and Occam's Razor.
"If you've got it...flaunt it" baby...oh yeah!
Originally posted by @wolfe63What is your improvinational quotient?
I am always tempted. Like some of the writers in these Forums... I have developed a debatable habit.
That of fetching obscure nouns and adjectives from the dustiest dictionaries on the bookshelf!
While I cannot deny that indulging in the practice satisfies my intellect; when I do, I do wonder if actual ideas are being conveyed.
The English languag ...[text shortened]... ut if my targeted readers just scroll past for lack of a hand-held thesaurus...what's the point?
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Originally posted by @suzianneI'm from a State of Confusion.
Is that where you make up what country you're from?
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Originally posted by @wolfe63The English language really doesn't make any sense at times, my favourite is live and live, how can two words which pronounced differently and mean different things be spelt the same?
I am always tempted. Like some of the writers in these Forums... I have developed a debatable habit.
That of fetching obscure nouns and adjectives from the dustiest dictionaries on the bookshelf!
While I cannot deny that indulging in the practice satisfies my intellect; when I do, I do wonder if actual ideas are being conveyed.
The English languag ...[text shortened]... ut if my targeted readers just scroll past for lack of a hand-held thesaurus...what's the point?
Originally posted by @trev33What about the oarsman and his wife who were rowing about who should do the rowing?
The English language really doesn't make any sense at times, my favourite is live and live, how can two words which pronounced differently and mean different things be spelt the same?
Originally posted by @trev33It does, many things in English do. English grammar gets more complicated when you get into the language. It seems easy at first. When I studied English at school, we learned that it has few rules but many exceptions to them. You have to learn them by and by.
Tell that to someone learning the language, we're brought up with it and similar things but it makes it overly complicated for them.
There are many anomalies in the dear old English language, and I have made so bold as to compose a limerick concerning one of them, so with your permission;
If a womb is the place we begin it
And a tomb we put dead people in it
Then a comb should be coomb
And a bomb should go boom
It' a funny old language though, innit.