/lit/ - Literature

>know vagaries doesn't mean "vaguenesses" but always want a word for the latter and some part of me still goes "what about vagaries?" and i have to tell it no
>have to type "bourgeois" really fast without thinking about it or i'll fuck it up
>have to type "nietzsche" really fast without thinking about it or i'll fuck it up
>data says "obviate" in star trek while reading a poem about his cat as if it means "makes obvious" but data would never make this mistake because he's a superintelligent android

>>16660476
>thought
That was your first mistake, bucko.

>>16660499
>have to type "nietzsche" really fast without thinking about it or i'll fuck it up
lol

I thought "sagacity" and "sagacious" had a soft G sound like sage.

>>16661760
Just remember 'Z first' and it all falls into place.

>>16661766
Like 'sage-assity'?
There is a G, just not an E.

>>16660499
i only know how to spell nietzsche bc i made it my password at work
t. witless insecure about-to-be-hacked anon

>>16660499
I have to remember the epic rap battles of history bit for neitzsche

"cos im N I E T z SCHE, and ill end any motherfucker like my name in a spelling bee"

>>16660499
>>16661934
>have to type "nietzsche" really fast without thinking about it or i'll fuck it up
That's interesting that this is an effective strategy for someone, to essentially store the information in kinesthetic memory. When I try to spell Nietzsche (or any other word that defies the spelling patterns I'm used to), I hear the letters being spoken in my head as I write or type them, and learning to consistently spell a difficult word correctly generally consists of memorizing the way the letters sound when spoken in the correct order.

>>16661974
Same anon. Maybe this is more true for Nietzsche than other words because that part of Epic Rap Battles >>16661956 mentioned is burned into my memory.

>loved reading as a kid but had no interest in talking/listening
>terrible oral/aural skills
>to this day I often pronounce words wrong because I'm only familiar with reading them
>people assume I'm pronouncing them right because I'm le smart educated man

>>16660476
>I still can't spell necessary half the time

>>16661984
hyper bowl

>>16661984
Ha! Same, except my brother always knows I'm pronouncing them wrong. Then we get to laugh about it.

>>16660476
>tfw dyslexic to the point that even spell check can't help and I have to bing the words
Half my search history is random fucking words.
Send help.

>>16662001
You’re not alone

>>16660499
the hard part in Nietzsche is the zsc in the middle. Just remember reverse alphabetical order so the z comes first and the c comes last.

>>16662382
NEET-SHE

>>16662001
>>16662014
It's the one word I have trouble with, thought I was just particularly dumb.

>thought barbiturates were that blue disinfectant at the hairdressers

>>16660499
>ESL
>see some political bragging about America and its future
>see the word "bourgeois" for the first time
>it's something about burgers, right?

>>16660476
>thought polemic meant a treatio-linguistic thought-method as shown throughout the philosophic patterns of ones life, which includes both of what can casually be distinguished as content and interaction with a content, as in "Socrates irony reveals a polemic"
I've yet to find a word that properly replaced my idealised "polemic".

>>16662534
Honestly I can't fault you for this one

>>16660476
>thought polemic meant a treatio-linguistic thought-method as shown throughout the philosophic patterns of ones life, which includes both of what can casually be distinguished as content and interaction with a content, as in "Socrates' irony reveals a polemic"
I've yet to find a word that properly replaced my idealised "polemic".

>>16662534
In all honesty, the poster probably thought that as well.

>>16662006
bore gee oh is

I thought "brazen" meant made of brass.

>>16662568
Actually it derives from the phrase "brass balls" so you weren't wrong.

bump.

>>16661766
WTF

I thought bough meant a bush or something and was pronounced "buff" until I read that Pound poem.

>talking with this local business owner explain to me how her sister got sick
>she says “nevertheless” when she means “sure enough”
>she says it 3 more times and every time the hair on the back of my neck stands up my muscles tense up
That’s what I get for trying to be friendly.
>>16661766
Say-jaysus? Sage-asus?

>>16660476
i thought "eclectic" meant "every now and then"

>>16660499
>>know vagaries doesn't mean "vaguenesses" but always want a word for the latter and some part of me still goes "what about vagaries?" and i have to tell it no
Vagueries, retart

>>16662907
>an eclectic man
>an every now and then man

>>16662933
i know, i never understood that either

>>16660499
>>have to type "nietzsche" really fast without thinking about it or i'll fuck it up
asme, fuck german

>still don’t know how to spell convienient

>>16661760
I just say Ni-es-z-s-che in my head and it all works out

>>16663039
*-et-

>>16661956
based and samepilled

>>16662006
soo per bow lee

>>16662913
that's a barbarism descended from the very mistake in question

don't use barbarisms

>>16662001
all the fucking time

>>16663039
>>16663047
tfw it didn't work out. kek

>"a couple" literally means 2 and not "a few"

>>16663665
lel shut up you

>>16662452
lost.
fuckin barbacide.

>>16663305
But that is how new words are created, with a root modified by a prefix or suffix or combinations thereof. As long as the word gets its point across, it is a successful word and may be adopted into common vernacular. And new ideas beget new words to summarize them. A war on new words is a war on new ideas. You are the barbar.

>>16662547
dialectic?

>>16662873
>nevertheless
>in spite of that; notwithstanding; all the same
You're the idiot here bucko.