[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Insure vs. Ensure (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/29/2017 3:13:20 AM EDT
These two words are not synonymous. 
Please ensure that you insure your valuables. |
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Affect and effect are not synonymous either, but as much as people struggle with the common apostrophe, the finer nuances of the language are hardly worth the gnashing of teeth. |
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English is kind of a shitty language, but I like it.
It requires many, many years of living with it to learn it well. It outs those who either are not well educated, or it is not their first language. With the nature of those people, it provides a method to identify and react to their scams. Kind of like when 'Robert' calls and has the thickest Indian accent you've ever heard. |
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Affect and effect are not synonymous either, but as much as people struggle with the common apostrophe, the finer nuances of the language are hardly worth the gnashing of teeth. That's why I made sure to stop into this thread. I love these ones! |
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The misuse of "affect" and "effect" is one of my pet peeves.
I also cringe at the now common misuse of pronouns, as in "he gave the keys to Tom and I." Some folks think that the subjective pronoun is always correct. It's not. And in stores, I see signs proclaiming: "20 items or less" and "can vegetables" Aaaaaaggggghhhhhh!!!!! |
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In the small town I live in people confuse sale/sell by using sale as a verb and sell as a noun or object of a preposition. For example, they will say; I am having a yard sell. I will sale you my used stuff, it is for sell. |
| My current twitch is reign/rein. As a person having "free reign" to act as he or she pleases, or "reigning in" his or her emotions. I've become really aware of this one, so it maybe a matter of perception, but it seems, to me, the failure rate in GD is about 50%. |
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My current twitch is reign/rein. As a person having "free reign" to act as he or she pleases, or "reigning in" his or her emotions. I've become really aware of this one, so it maybe a matter of perception, but it seems, to me, the failure rate in GD is about 50%. |
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I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
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How about toe the line vs. tow the line? Quoted:
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My current twitch is reign/rein. As a person having "free reign" to act as he or she pleases, or "reigning in" his or her emotions. I've become really aware of this one, so it maybe a matter of perception, but it seems, to me, the failure rate in GD is about 50%. It sort of works. Sort of. But it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding. |
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How about toe the line vs. tow the line? Quoted:
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My current twitch is reign/rein. As a person having "free reign" to act as he or she pleases, or "reigning in" his or her emotions. I've become really aware of this one, so it maybe a matter of perception, but it seems, to me, the failure rate in GD is about 50%. |
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I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake. 
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 Erasure Always I prefer Erasure. |
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Once I had to pound Ensure to ensure that I'd be strong enough to fly home after a business trip interrupted by 4 days of food poisoning thereby insuring against collapsing at the airport from dehydration.
I thought I was going to be stuck they're at there hotel and I didn't want to be their. So they're grammerphiles. |
That gif used to be against COC 
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English is kind of a shitty language, but I like it. It requires many, many years of living with it to learn it well. It outs those who either are not well educated, or it is not their first language. With the nature of those people, it provides a method to identify and react to their scams. Kind of like when 'Robert' calls and has the thickest Indian accent you've ever heard. |
