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ZenGum · 07-29-2008, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

A "new-clear" explanation. Hey anybody notice that T-dub and UG have both been away for a bit? Perhaps...

I used to wonder about those two ... which one is the real person, and which is their sock-puppet?

(and separate is definitely hard to spell!)

Shawnee123 · 07-29-2008, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

A "new-clear" explanation. Hey anybody notice that T-dub and UG have both been away for a bit? Perhaps...

Perhaps they luvz each otherz and are havin' each otherz baybeez?

Sundae · 07-29-2008, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

*grins* touche Zen:P That one forever creeps past me. Seperate (for separate) is another. Funny how the brain clings to an earlier understanding even when consciously corrected many times.

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Originally Posted by Cloud

I am a stellar speller Dwellar . . . and I have the exact same blind spots.

I had trouble with those two too.
I taught myself - SepARate. We ARE separated (picture a couple standing apart)
And deFINITE. I will stay convinced unto infinity (picture a stubborn man, arms crossed, sure he is right)

Silly, but it worked for me.
Calendar was another one.
But I remember that just by saying it Cal-n-DAR in my head.

Clodfobble · 07-29-2008, 12:42 PM

I always connect "separate" with a "paring" knife.

Chocolatl · 07-29-2008, 06:21 PM

I remember "definite" by thinking that if something is "definite" it has "FINITE" limits. Funny the tricks we use to help ourselves out.

DanaC · 07-30-2008, 08:23 PM

That's the one I use too choco, though I sometimes don't think about it when typing in a rush.

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-30-2008, 11:27 PM

Well, I for one categorically deny whatever rumor there may be.

Tee Dump (oblique and gratuitous Boston Harbor reference) and I are not hand-in-sock; we're a hypergolic mixture.

"Separate" is annoyingly elusive, isn't it? I tell myself two A's, two E's. That primary-school geographical spelling bugbear Mississippi yields to a rhythmic little dactylic chant: "Em I ess ess I ess ess I pee pee I."

And "weird" of course is weird. Who'd've thought? "Seize" remains unexplained...

Clodfobble · 07-31-2008, 08:37 AM

Well, because if it were "sieze" it would rhyme with "sieve," right?

classicman · 07-31-2008, 08:57 AM

or Sleeve for that matter.

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classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	or Sleeve for that matter. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

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