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Originally Posted by coolpaggy
okay could you list out five words which are oft used, but still have meanings unknown to the user?
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coolpaggy,
I think you have misunderstood me. I'm talking about when people come across a word (eg in A&A), don't know what it means (hardly surprising as some of the words there are somewhat esoteric), and then appear to guess at a meaning instead of looking it up.
Just seems to be happening more these days.
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Originally Posted by arjmen
Well, I can't really speculate whether fewer folks look up words in the dictionary nowadays but I do feel that the quality of writing (I'm talking only about the construct and grammar here, and not about the ideas put forward) is quite poor.
The common excuse for not bothering to write properly seems to be that the writer is constrained for time. I fail to understand this because if a person is able to speak fluent and mostly grammatical English (which I believe quite a few people here are), then he or she should not have too much trouble writing properly.
This is a forum used by students and/or people in the education industry and if this forum's users cannot be bothered to write properly, then ....
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arjmen,
I couldn't agree more. You may find
this thread (Make TM an abbreviation free zone?) of interest.
Michael