Words you have to look up in the dictionary, EVERY time... (todd)

[Gertie]

Do you have any words that you constantly forget how to spell?

Every time I want to use the word "recommend" I have to look it up in the dictionary. I always question the number of c's.

[Kevin]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

i always add an L in the wrong spot.

[Jim]

Crap Kevin, you stole my word, I always want to put an a in there.

[janine]

I have trouble with desert/dessert.

[Jim]

Don't eat the wrong one J9.

[~Geektastic~]

janine wrote: "I have trouble with desert/dessert."

I always remember that thing they taught us back in grade school: You want two desserts but only one desert. Or something like that, only catchier.

[Félix]

Don't ever desert/dessert us, Dutch.

[~Geektastic~]

She can dessert me all she wants. I love sweets.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Not due to spelling, but I can never remember what nonplussed means. I've looked it up dozens of times and it never sticks. It means in a state of perplexity, confusion, bewilderment. Seems like it should mean the opposite.

Maybe now that I've typed that, I'll remember it.

[~Geektastic~]

I just recently got a handle on the word ambivalent.

[Phil]

I'm not sure I care about that word. Or maybe I do?

[Sally, la reina]

I can't spell deffinately.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I concur.

[Phil]

LG the concurrer.

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "I can't spell deffinately."

Think of "define" and "finite".






... or use spellcheck.

[[deleted user]]

Trendy shitbag. I lost the Stout Junior High Spelling Bee in 1972 on that one.

[Phil]

The Spelling Bee word was "trendy shitbag?"

Odd.

[[deleted user]]

Phil wrote: "The Spelling Bee word was "trendy shitbag?"

Odd."

Because it was two words instead of one?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I would think most junior high students could spell shitbag. How did you spell it, trendie shittbagg?

[[deleted user]]

No, I put a space between "shit" and "bag." I didn't realize it was a compound word.

Oh, the humanity...

[Rebecca]

Amber wrote: "janine wrote: "I have trouble with desert/dessert."

I always remember that thing they taught us back in grade school: You want two desserts but only one desert. Or something like that, only catchier."

"Dessert is twice as nice." I still remember that from ninth grade.

[janine]

Amber wrote: "janine wrote: "I have trouble with desert/dessert."

I always remember that thing they taught us back in grade school: You want two desserts but only one desert. Or something like that, only catchier."

They don't teach that to Dutch kids.

[A. J.]

Erudite.
Restaurant.
About half the words in any given China Miéville story.

[~Geektastic~]

janine wrote: "Amber wrote: "janine wrote: "I have trouble with desert/dessert."

I always remember that thing they taught us back in grade school: You want two desserts but only one desert. Or something like tha..."

Well they should! (I'm just kidding; it's not exactly an important distinction when learning a second language).

[[deleted user]]

Brobdingnagian

[~Geektastic~]

Lilliputian

[[deleted user]]

Liaison

[Cynthia]

Vacuum.

[Phil]

Glubbdubdrib and Houyhnhnm.

[~Geektastic~]

Phil wrote: "Glubbdubdrib and Houyhnhnm."

Gesundheit.

[Jammies]

Gertie wrote: "Do you have any words that you constantly forget how to spell?

Every time I want to use the word "recommend" I have to look it up in the dictionary. I always question the number of c's."

That is exactly the word I thought of before I even opened this thread! Also, the word 'Morocco' gives me trouble for the same reason.

*embraces Gertie like a long-lost sister*

[Gertie]

Haha! *returning the hug* I'm glad I never have to spell Morocco because that would happen to me too! A lot of those words with double letters confuse me. Like "tomorrow", when I was a kid I always wanted to add an extra m in it. Fortunately tommorrow looks ridiculous, so it was always obvious it had to be changed.

[Cynthia]

Jammies wrote: "Gertie wrote: "Do you have any words that you constantly forget how to spell?

Every time I want to use the word "recommend" I have to look it up in the dictionary. I always question the number ..."

Jammies, how many sisters do you have now? I thought you picked me as your long-lost sister? *cries*

[Mary]

Commitment is another one

[Gertie]

Yeah! I just looked at that and thought "is that enough t's?". Ugh. :-P

[Jammies]

*hugs Cynthia too* Hey, you're still my sister! I need all the sisters I can get. :)

(But if it would help, I'll demote Gertie to a long-lost cousin...)

[Brittomart]

Even though I've looked up the definition of "nuance" several times, I still don't know what it means when someones says an argument is nuanced.

[Gertie]

Jammies wrote: "*hugs Cynthia too* Hey, you're still my sister! I need all the sisters I can get. :)

(But if it would help, I'll demote Gertie to a long-lost cousin...)"

You would demote me? That's it, you'll NEVER be my sister now!
*stomps away, crying*

[Sally, la reina]

Complexity, yes, but doesn't it also mean that the argument itself is subtle and non-aggressive? A oppossed to a Clark-style rant, that is.

[Cynthia]

Or as opposed to a crybaby like cousin Gertie.

[Gertie]

Jeez.

[Cynthia]

Kidding, Gertie.

[Gertie]

I was going to keep playing along, but I don't like being a drama queen, partly because I'm lazy. It's too much work! :-P

Did anyone happen to notice it's Friday? YAY!!!

[Jammies]

Can someone tell me how to spell TGIF?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Quondam.

[Félix]

What's number for 911?

[Sally, la reina]

I hear that. I was struggling to put my thoughts into words, clearly, to find a synonym for subtle suitable for the context of argument.

[Sally, la reina]

Oh, and I am unable to spell sattelight. Satellite. Oops, that was a mistake, my finger bounced on the l key. Sattelite is how I always try.

[Félix]

I once owned a '73 Plymouth Satellite. It wouldn't start if the ambient temperature was below 30 F.

[Sally, la reina]

To me the word ambient describes a downtempo type of techno music.