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Friday Five (on Saturday?)
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thefridayfive:
1. Can you diagram a sentence?<
Yes, but why. :/
2. What word do you always spell wrong, no matter what?
Relevant. Competent. Piece. Received.
3. What word always looks like it's spelled wrong to you but isn’t?
"Their." Not a case of wrong usage either, it's just that This Specific Homophone looks weird, and if you were taught "I before E except after C" (which is bullshit, I think, more often than not you've got an exception rather than the rule) it really looks wrong.
4. Do you have any little memory games when it comes to similar words, like principle and principal?
I'm sure I do have some mnemonics but all of them just fell out of my head. I'm a reasonably good speller in general so I tend not to worry about it.
5. Was grammar something you enjoyed or detested in school?
I didn't really like it in school unless it was something I found out via trivia factoid. Mostly again because English has too many exceptions, and I often marvel that anyone who has it as a second language doesn't just fucking give up, lol. To be fair, most other languages' grammars are a bit more regular but I didn't really like learning about them either. I still can't wrap my head around word cases, which made learning Russian frustrating, even if I did love exasperating my Russian teacher by constantly referring to the "genital case."
thefridayfive:1. Can you diagram a sentence?<
Yes, but why. :/
2. What word do you always spell wrong, no matter what?
Relevant. Competent. Piece. Received.
3. What word always looks like it's spelled wrong to you but isn’t?
"Their." Not a case of wrong usage either, it's just that This Specific Homophone looks weird, and if you were taught "I before E except after C" (which is bullshit, I think, more often than not you've got an exception rather than the rule) it really looks wrong.
4. Do you have any little memory games when it comes to similar words, like principle and principal?
I'm sure I do have some mnemonics but all of them just fell out of my head. I'm a reasonably good speller in general so I tend not to worry about it.
5. Was grammar something you enjoyed or detested in school?
I didn't really like it in school unless it was something I found out via trivia factoid. Mostly again because English has too many exceptions, and I often marvel that anyone who has it as a second language doesn't just fucking give up, lol. To be fair, most other languages' grammars are a bit more regular but I didn't really like learning about them either. I still can't wrap my head around word cases, which made learning Russian frustrating, even if I did love exasperating my Russian teacher by constantly referring to the "genital case."
