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English words mostly confused.
« on: January 15, 2014, 07:20:34 pm »
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***This thread is for non native English speakers! :D***

We all may make mistakes and confuse while speaking English, and use some silly words instead of correct ones, i d like to share mine ;

"İnsan" means "Human" in Turkish , so i usually confuse with these two; "insanity" and "humanity" :D

Imagine, "A psycho killed 20 people in a restaurant , the insanity... " It would confuse me :D

How about you guys?
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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2014, 07:22:42 pm »
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Ente means Duck. Ententententente.

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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2014, 07:23:43 pm »
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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2014, 08:15:04 pm »
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In my country, they often use english constructs as product names, not knowing that the result actually does have a meaning, but means quite something else. E.g. one local company making backpacks called them "body bags", because they snug tightly to your body. Or, big football matches are sometimes displayed in public, on big screens (the goal is to sell beer, of course), and they are called "public viewing" here.
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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2014, 12:46:30 am »
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Also interrogation marks need that fucking space because I say they do. Like this ? Or this ?

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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2014, 01:03:11 am »
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Also interrogation marks need that fucking space because I say they do. Like this ? Or this ?

Question marks :) And no space! Do you see?

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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2014, 01:04:43 am »
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Question marks :) And no space! Do you see?

No, it's aesthetically horrible and misleading. The last symbol looks like a letter and it isn't.

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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2014, 01:06:25 am »
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No, it's aesthetically horrible and misleading. The last symbol looks like a letter and it isn't.

Interrogation marks does sound really awesome though, might start using that :P

What is your native language? Obviously to me " ? " doesn't look like a letter.

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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2014, 01:12:53 am »
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Interrogation marks does sound really awesome though, might start using that :P

What is your native language? Obviously to me " ? " doesn't look like a letter.

My native language is french, and as you probabably know the alphabet is the same + some accents. To me "?" looks like a letter when put at the end of a word, because words are blocks made of letters :/

Ho yeah I mixed interrogation and question (probably because in french it's "point d'interrogation")

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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2014, 01:16:01 am »
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My native language is french, and as you probabably know the alphabet is the same + some accents. To me "?" looks like a letter when put at the end of a word, because words are blocks made of letters :/

Ho yeah I mixed interrogation and question (probably because in french it's "point d'interrogation")

Ah ok, just your brain playing tricks on you! I'll be sure to space them out if I'm ever talking to you, we'd hate for you to get confused!

I'll have some talks with my foreign friends, be interesting to see if there's just set words that get mixed up, or if it is just based off languages sounding the same, and from there group which languages are similar by which words get mixed up.

As you can tell I have lots of work to do and would much rather do a pointless survey on language than that :P

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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2014, 03:31:56 am »
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No, it's aesthetically horrible and misleading. The last symbol looks like a letter and it isn't.

Do French writers leave a space before the question mark?  I know they don't in Spanish, another romance language.

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Re: English words mostly confused.
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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2014, 08:39:31 am »
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When ever i hear "terrific" i just think of something bad automatically and my brain can't accept it's something good. Maybe because it sounds like terrible and horrific combined  :mrgreen:
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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2014, 10:06:16 am »
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I know that a lot of Germans mistake "become" as "get" cuz we got the German word "bekommen" which actually means "get".

Did that sentence make sense? :?
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Re: English words mostly confused.
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2014, 11:12:21 am »
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In french "éventuellement" means something that could happen but will not always happen. No luck, "eventually" doesn't mean that.

Ho yeah and in UK english, a school owned by a private company for profit is called a public school, because fuck logic yo