definitely

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• EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  it’s the word “finite” with de- in the beginning and -ly at the end. That’s how I remember.

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s actually helpful. Thanks.

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    • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also helps to think of the word “definitely” as meaning “by definition”

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  • pixelscript@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not like this superficially either. That’s literally what the word is.

    finite - to have a limit, be bounded

    The de- part is acting like it does in words like defraud. It’s not a negative, like you might see in detox, where it means to remove something or undo something. Instead, it simply insists something has been done, not unlike the suffix -ify. You’ve been defrauded. In a manner of speaking, you could say you’ve been “fraud-ified”.

    You could say something that has been defined has been “finite-ified”. The possibilities of what it could be were limitless, but you restricted them to something specific. You’ve made it finite. You’ve defined it. It is definite.

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is it fin-it or fine-ite

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I always told people “definitely is spelled like infinitely, so just remember how to spell infinite”

    But I suppose “finite” is even better than “infinite” since there’s less to remember.

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s more that finite is easier because it has the long I sound at the beginning which clearly designates it as I. The short i sound in most English dialects is a middling kind of “ehh” sound that can be confused for an e a lot when sounding out a word. When I misspell definitely it’s because I spell it defenitely.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Defiantly going to remember how to spell it now!

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    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It also works for “infinitely”.

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• rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• 3x7x37@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Defentanily

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pregante

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People online tell me that language is fluid and spelling is interpretive. Just let your reviewers know that if they mark anything!

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    language is fluid and spelling is interpretive

    Said every dipshit American that can’t spell in their own native language 😂

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    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Language is fluid, it standardised spellings are helpful for clarity and ease of reading.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s totally only an American thing 🙄

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• affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i hope i never have to write beruacracy in an academic context

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can tell.

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Me, writing an entire sentence describing process, rules and hierarchy within an organization so that I don't have to try to spell the single word which describes this concept:

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Conventions of English be damned, I spell it defiantly.

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  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You sure do.

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• unnamedau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this is why i’m enjoying learning steno, if i forget how to spell a word i can usually just sound it out :^)

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is still a thing? Where? Why?

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    • unnamedau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      steno’s not just court, it’s still the easiest way to do live tv captioning and such
      there’s also still a big hobbyist group around it, plover and hobbyist stenoboards have made it pretty easy to get into from that angle instead

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• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Definitively definite defined definition.

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• jlow@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s rreeccoommeenndd and so many others for me …

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  • xorollo@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Occassionnaly

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  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Commend” is not as difficult for me so I just remember it as re-commend

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    • jlow@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oohh, I’ll try to remember thqt, thanks!

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• frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I always fuck up guarantee, I tend to spell it “guerantee”.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    garant-y

    ping

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• BanjoShepard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Assuming the error is with accidentally writing defiantly in lieu of definitely, I used to tell myself “There is definitely not an a in definitely.”

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• chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I always remember the phrase, “If you spell definitely with an ‘a’ you’re definitely an asshole”. Harsh, but it stuck in my head really well.

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• keepcarrot@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I did enjoy the glut of people online defiantly doing very mundane things

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• TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Can you do “effect” versus “affect” for me?

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  • Thordros@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That one’s easy. That’s discreet vs. discrete tier stuff. Get me some of that say your piece / peace stuff, awwww yeah.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Effect is a vErb.

    Affect is a nAhn.

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• Earflap@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Necessary and necessarily for me. Can’t spell 'em to save my life.

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• Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  De-finite-ly

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• bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I defiantly agree that you need a doctorate degree to type that word.

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