definitely
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 5 months ago
3x7x37@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
[deleted]Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Defentanily
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pregante
GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 months ago
People online tell me that language is fluid and spelling is interpretive. Just let your reviewers know that if they mark anything!
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 months ago
language is fluid and spelling is interpretive
Said every dipshit American that can’t spell in their own native language 😂
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Language is fluid, it standardised spellings are helpful for clarity and ease of reading.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah it’s totally only an American thing 🙄
affiliate@lemmy.world 5 months ago
i hope i never have to write beruacracy in an academic context
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can tell.
socsa@piefed.social 5 months 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:
Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Conventions of English be damned, I spell it defiantly.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
You sure do.
unnamedau@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
this is why i’m enjoying learning steno, if i forget how to spell a word i can usually just sound it out :^)
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
This is still a thing? Where? Why?
unnamedau@lemmy.ca 5 months 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
callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Definitively definite defined definition.
jlow@beehaw.org 5 months ago
It’s rreeccoommeenndd and so many others for me …
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
“Commend” is not as difficult for me so I just remember it as re-commend
jlow@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Oohh, I’ll try to remember thqt, thanks!
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I always fuck up guarantee, I tend to spell it “guerantee”.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
garant-y
ping
BanjoShepard@lemmy.world 5 months 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.”
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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.
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 5 months ago
I did enjoy the glut of people online defiantly doing very mundane things
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
Can you do “effect” versus “affect” for me?
Thordros@hexbear.net 5 months ago
That one’s easy. That’s discreet vs. discrete tier stuff. Get me some of that say your piece / peace stuff, awwww yeah.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Effect is a vErb.
Affect is a nAhn.
Earflap@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Necessary and necessarily for me. Can’t spell 'em to save my life.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
De-finite-ly
bulwark@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I defiantly agree that you need a doctorate degree to type that word.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 months ago
it’s the word “finite” with de- in the beginning and -ly at the end. That’s how I remember.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That’s actually helpful. Thanks.
Dabundis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also helps to think of the word “definitely” as meaning “by definition”
pixelscript@lemm.ee 5 months 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.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Is it fin-it or fine-ite
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 5 months 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.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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.
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Defiantly going to remember how to spell it now!
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It also works for “infinitely”.