gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
My vocabulary is at 17,600, and I lied only at 3-4 of them. Yay me?
CFC English Vocabulary Challenge
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gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Wait, but you're Australian, aren't you? Then what's your first language? Kangaroo?
My guess and bet is that the first language is French and the residence is Melbourne, Quebec, Canada. I can as well be all wrong, dunno
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Either that or it's one of those joke thingies people tell me so much about 'em.
trader/warrior
Deity
24,800, only 800 words behind the typical native english speaker of my age. 
Now if only I could learn to make use of some of those words rather than just understanding them when I come across them.
I rarely look up words I see others use on CFC, but I very often find that I have to look up words I want to use that I am actually not sure of the exact meaning of, probably due to just gradually getting the gist of its usage over the years without ever looking it up.
Now if only I could learn to make use of some of those words rather than just understanding them when I come across them.
I rarely look up words I see others use on CFC, but I very often find that I have to look up words I want to use that I am actually not sure of the exact meaning of, probably due to just gradually getting the gist of its usage over the years without ever looking it up.
If it's not a joke, that's a really good vocabulary for a second language.
sophie
Break My Heart
tk's not from Australia originally.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
24,800, only 800 words behind the typical native english speaker of my age.
Now if only I could learn to make use of some of those words rather than just understanding them when I come across them.
I rarely look up words I see others use on CFC, but I very often find that I have to look up words I want to use that I am actually not sure of the exact meaning of, probably due to just gradually getting the gist of its usage over the years without ever looking it up.
I usually just ask the person who wrote the word what it means
I keep forgetting what a gerund is, though
and what erring means
sophie
Break My Heart
A gerund is a verbal noun. Generally speaking the gerundial form in English is distinguished with the -ing ending.
"Seeing is believing" has two gerunds, which is to say we took two verbs "to see" and "to believe" and used them substantively.
Erring is to make an error.
Just a speculation: that delivers an entirely other meaning to the error: someone who errs. Similarly to how actor is someone who acts.
Like in:
"Aw, I'm such an error!"
"What sort of an error it takes to screw things up like this, I wonder..."
and such.
True or false?
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
maybe errer?
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
what about we make a compromise no one likes and go with erreur?
Hey, you're American! Get that extraneous 'u' out of your word this instant!