I have seen more people misspell dominant as "dominate." Never saw this until like 3 months ago and now no one can use the correct word. WTH guys?
OT: Why dominate?
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You haven't been catching it before. It's as common as lose/loose but not quite as common as of/have.
Their are people who didn't pay attention to there spelling or grammer.
But who cars, so long as our fast paste offence can crush K-State, and there one legged wonder!!
But who cars, so long as our fast paste offence can crush K-State, and there one legged wonder!!
Could be auto-correcting spell check doing it. I have no problem with it correcting misspelled words, but it often wants to put a word, or another form of the same word that I've never intended.
Wish I could turn it off. It's inferyatin!
Wish I could turn it off. It's inferyatin!
You can find the of/have in damn near every single thread on RR.
This board has more mongoloids that use "I seen" than I've ever seen in real life. It's unbelievable.
People say dominat when they mean dominant. So they spell dominate when they mean dominant.
I love to write. I've been published, in a modest fashion.
Have a parent that taught English.
I have a couple of degrees.
I personally don't give a rat's A$$ if someone makes a simple error in spelling, or because of their "sub-culture" uses a word or two differently than is considered proper.
Hell, if the word police keep it up, I'll revert to my stockyards/rural redneck voice and confuse everyone.
And to the guy who calls others "mongoloids," as I explained to a Judge recently, I could introduce you to men you would think were poor and illiterate, with holes in their britches, and driving 15 year old trucks who have 6 figure futures contracts, and 7 figure land holdings. And if you gained their trust, they might whip out their I-Phone and start talkin' European monetary policy with you. [I left the "g" off of a word intentionally.]
I had never seen the dominant/dominate issue until I got on RR several years ago. It is the most puzzling to me. It's not a homonym. It's not even the same part of speech. Obviously, it's being taught somewhere.
Reelly???? this is wat we have tured in too? A speeling bee. I get beter thins to du than werry about sum one speiling. Knot evrone can spel az goot az mi. But gave thim a brake. Thiz iz baskitbal form aftrall.
this is wat we have tured in too? A speeling bee. I get beter thins to du than werry about sum one speiling. Knot evrone can spel az goot az mi. But gave thim a brake. Thiz iz baskitbal form aftrall.Really, english is just a tough language. I am pretty good in spanish - I can spell words more correctly in spanish than I can english and that took 1 year vs. english which is my native language.
Cough
through
ghost
overweigh
Leigh
Just sound those bold letters out.
Spanish vowels are always the same too, in English it's insane. I have no idea how anyone form another country learns english. If anyone here has I'd like to meet ya. Smart feller.
Cough
through
ghost
overweigh
Leigh
Just sound those bold letters out.
Spanish vowels are always the same too, in English it's insane. I have no idea how anyone form another country learns english. If anyone here has I'd like to meet ya. Smart feller.
I have... but as a kid it’s easy.
English overall is very easy for foreigners, well relatively speaking and depending which foreigners like easiest for scandinavian and german, harder for Chinese.
Spelling in English is hard because Of lack of rules and the amount of words that are borrowed from other European languages. Verb conjugation also lacks rules, but grammar is overall remarkably simple; most languages like Latin require you to declinate a word depending on which function it serves in a sentance so you arent just changing a verb to signify tense but every single word in the sentence, for example.
English overall is very easy for foreigners, well relatively speaking and depending which foreigners like easiest for scandinavian and german, harder for Chinese.
Spelling in English is hard because Of lack of rules and the amount of words that are borrowed from other European languages. Verb conjugation also lacks rules, but grammar is overall remarkably simple; most languages like Latin require you to declinate a word depending on which function it serves in a sentance so you arent just changing a verb to signify tense but every single word in the sentence, for example.
Well I've never heard learning english as an adult foreigner is easy. You're a smart one.
And speaking / hearing English is hard for lots of foreigners, there are so many accents. A foreigner who learns English correctly cannot perform in New Orleans.
Do you speak Latin? I'm taking it up soon.
I think that's the only one that gets me. Every time I hear an adult saw that, in the back of my mind I wonder if they ever finished elementary school. Misspellings or typing the wrong form of a word doesn't bother me. Probably just someone's spell check betraying then a lot of the time.
Speak Latin no, but I know enough.
It’s easy in the sense that the grammar is very easy, English. Hard in the sense there aren’t enough rules like spelling, really in a lot of languages a spelling bee wouldn’t make sense because if you can speak he word, you can spell the world.
But in Europe, most languages have so many dialects there are some villages who can hardly communicate with one another fifty miles away due to accent, but that is less so today modern world but I know if they plunked any of us down in some Irish villages we would be hard pressed to have a conversation.
Here’s even a dialect of Greek spoken in some remote village entirely by whistling, maybe not fair to call it still Greek but he difference we have from Bayou talk to other languages pales incomparison really
It’s easy in the sense that the grammar is very easy, English. Hard in the sense there aren’t enough rules like spelling, really in a lot of languages a spelling bee wouldn’t make sense because if you can speak he word, you can spell the world.
But in Europe, most languages have so many dialects there are some villages who can hardly communicate with one another fifty miles away due to accent, but that is less so today modern world but I know if they plunked any of us down in some Irish villages we would be hard pressed to have a conversation.
Here’s even a dialect of Greek spoken in some remote village entirely by whistling, maybe not fair to call it still Greek but he difference we have from Bayou talk to other languages pales incomparison really
Oh and learning new languages isn’t really related to intelligence, there’s a part of the brain that is strengthened when you become bilingual which makes it easier to learn subsequent languages. The younger you are, the easier it will be.
There are savants though that can learn a Lang in like two weeks of intensive study, there was a guy who did it in Icelandic I think it was for a prize.
There are savants though that can learn a Lang in like two weeks of intensive study, there was a guy who did it in Icelandic I think it was for a prize.
Cool. Never realized it was that easy compared. I've always heard the opposite.
Actually, it is a trick they are playing on you. Haven't you heard of "dominate tricks"?
Agreed. It astonishes me how many people on this board don't understand the difference between those words.
And what's weird is it seems to be a oddly Rupp Rafters thing. I rarely ever see that mistake on other message boards, but on this one I see it CONSTANTLY. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the Kentucky educational system.
I'm going to slightly disagree again at my own risk. As a youth I had extreme trouble understanding new language. As an adult it's coming much easier.
I think it's probably true in some ways, but I don't think it's a universal rule like most believe.
You are correct. My wife and I were out of the country and our interpretor spoke 7 languages . He said english was the hardest due to all the slang. He had trouble when we spoke tongue in cheek. Didn't get the puns.
I have a friend who was born in Pakistan, highly educated, he said he found it pretty difficult to master English but he was diligent about it and did so when his family moved to New York.
Then he moved to the South and said it was an entirely new language to learn again. His New York English did nothing to help him here, lol.
Then he moved to the South and said it was an entirely new language to learn again. His New York English did nothing to help him here, lol.
All languages have puns and slang and your interpretor must have been a real maroon since no language is used more in entertainment increasing ones exposure to such usage.
Ofcourse a Pakistani is going to have some difficulty learning English because their language is totally unrelated; he would have the same difficulty learning any other indo-european language.
Try to learn Latin, then try to learn a latin origin language like Spanish or Italian... you'll quickly see the difference between easy and difficult and you'll realise you only hear immigrants say English is difficult for reasons other than it actually being the case.
Also people want to excuse themselves from not learning how to speak properly by claiming that it is difficult when in actuality they are lazy and don't read enough, or atleast the habituation of their environments make it very difficult. Everything you really needed to know about English you learned by 8th grade.
Ofcourse a Pakistani is going to have some difficulty learning English because their language is totally unrelated; he would have the same difficulty learning any other indo-european language.
Try to learn Latin, then try to learn a latin origin language like Spanish or Italian... you'll quickly see the difference between easy and difficult and you'll realise you only hear immigrants say English is difficult for reasons other than it actually being the case.
Also people want to excuse themselves from not learning how to speak properly by claiming that it is difficult when in actuality they are lazy and don't read enough, or atleast the habituation of their environments make it very difficult. Everything you really needed to know about English you learned by 8th grade.
I am pretty awful with grammer...
But seriously, I am bad but the most annoying thing is not knowing the correct Your/You're or There/Their/They're. That's pretty simple.
But seriously, I am bad but the most annoying thing is not knowing the correct Your/You're or There/Their/They're. That's pretty simple.