More than I Wanted to Type
I have no plans today to post my review of Fires of Heaven. Tough, eh? But I've kept up so far with detailing my returned adventures in Azeroth. Links forth coming. I'm trying not to overdo myself today as my shoulder joints are aching rather persistently.
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Warcraft: Ragefire
Now and then I get over excited with my words. I have a bad habit of making my own pronunciations- I can clearly recall back in second or third grade trying to say Catholic and Chesapeake. I grew up in a VERY rural community, mostly full of Baptists and Methodists with a few other congregations. I wasn't familiar with Catholicism. So I somehow came up with it sounding like "Cath-ol-ick". I came up with "cheapskate" next, which I can only figure came about as me speed reading to the point of crippling my comprehension. My parents after they stopped laughing warned me to never visit the northeast regions or I would be, eh, well, they said bad things would happen.
More often than not, I learned most of my more syllable heavy words through context rather than the dictionary. So as a result, sometimes I have been known to fudge a couple words meanings. Luckily, my husband has been able to correct me for the greater part. I know it amuses him.
I did spell check this entry, and my one mistake was that I made persistent have an "a". I never did win any spelling bees, but at least I've improved over time. Mostly with the use of thesaurus and the common sense not to abuse a reader into too many pages of verbage. Many thanks to Ms. MG and Ms. Greenfield to discouraging bombastic tendencies rivaling Tycho of Penny Arcade and encouraging useful word devices that have rhythm and flow. They suggested saving my adjectives and fragments for poetry. It works much better in a 'creative' format.
On that note- an interesting website with a web-style graphical thesaurus. Be warned, you only get a couple of free searches. Its not the most useful tool for finding that one word that is like another, but it would be an interesting teaching tool or amusement.
I need to get to the library and return Harry Potter and pick up French Women Dont' Get Fat.
News: Soda, Cards, and Fatty Food
Warcraft: Ragefire
Now and then I get over excited with my words. I have a bad habit of making my own pronunciations- I can clearly recall back in second or third grade trying to say Catholic and Chesapeake. I grew up in a VERY rural community, mostly full of Baptists and Methodists with a few other congregations. I wasn't familiar with Catholicism. So I somehow came up with it sounding like "Cath-ol-ick". I came up with "cheapskate" next, which I can only figure came about as me speed reading to the point of crippling my comprehension. My parents after they stopped laughing warned me to never visit the northeast regions or I would be, eh, well, they said bad things would happen.
More often than not, I learned most of my more syllable heavy words through context rather than the dictionary. So as a result, sometimes I have been known to fudge a couple words meanings. Luckily, my husband has been able to correct me for the greater part. I know it amuses him.
I did spell check this entry, and my one mistake was that I made persistent have an "a". I never did win any spelling bees, but at least I've improved over time. Mostly with the use of thesaurus and the common sense not to abuse a reader into too many pages of verbage. Many thanks to Ms. MG and Ms. Greenfield to discouraging bombastic tendencies rivaling Tycho of Penny Arcade and encouraging useful word devices that have rhythm and flow. They suggested saving my adjectives and fragments for poetry. It works much better in a 'creative' format.
On that note- an interesting website with a web-style graphical thesaurus. Be warned, you only get a couple of free searches. Its not the most useful tool for finding that one word that is like another, but it would be an interesting teaching tool or amusement.
I need to get to the library and return Harry Potter and pick up French Women Dont' Get Fat.
posted by Razorhoney | 3:10 PM
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