The Japanese SOS Exposure Index definition:
Meanwhile, one of my camera Manuals describes a grayscale image as being monotonous.
Long ago, as an engineer working in Houston I sent a 'Happy New Year' email to a PEMEX engineer.
I said "Feliz Ano Nuevo" only to be politely told that I had wished him a happy new anus.
Back then a Windows computer didn't easily let one type "Año" so what he told me that they did was to write "A~no" ...
A. A. Milne 1882–1956 English writer for children.
"He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 5
Chapter V
In Which
Rabbit Has a Busy Day, and We Learn
What Christopher Robin Does in the
Mornings.
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_House_at_Pooh_Corner_%281961%29/Chapter_5
Psychology: I know a guy who always spells "affect" as "effect" but never vice-versa ...
We learn language usage at a young age just by hearing it spoken - essentially rote learning. We may or may not understand the structure of the language. We were forced to do French somewhere in high school. In the very first class the teacher started with the French versions of the verb to be - "Je suis, il est, elle est, tu es, etc". I was completely lost because I didn't understand the concept of the verb to be in English - I don't think we had never been taught it! I just used it as I had heard it.
At some point in my adult life I had to learn the difference between affect and effect because I had never properly understood that one was a verb and the other a noun. I also had its and it's wrong - for some reason it seemed natural to me that the apostrophe version was the possessive and maybe a teacher never got through to me - I can remember being taught it. To this day I still subconsciously write it the wrong way and have to remember to check.
I used to go to Indonesia surfing for many years and started to learn some Indonesian language. I learnt more about the structure of the English language in that process than all the English classes at junior high school - after which I was happily allowed to drop English and stick to maths / science.
From the Mel Brooks Movie, but the Servant waits while the Master baits. The Japanese can't pronounce some words. Hello sounds like Harro.
Some nice misspellings here: engrish.com/ (ad warning!).
I liked the T-shirt marked "Asia" with a map of Africa on it !!
Years ago, people used to ask if Singapore was in China.
TikTok’s Singaporean CEO was asked that at a US Senate Heearing.
Just go to any of my posts 😁🤣
que pobrecito hombre ...
