tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69451.post109630336549117575..comments2023-04-02T01:11:26.303-05:00Comments on Girl Writes Code: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69451.post-1096397682352493802004-09-28T13:54:00.000-05:002004-09-28T13:54:00.000-05:00Yeah, I misuse "hopefully" also. I guess you would...Yeah, I misuse "hopefully" also. I guess you would say "I hope that," instead. But in that case, both senses refer to being full of hope; the difference is in what they modify, the subject or the speaker.<br /><br />"Epicenter" and "center," however, have different semantic meanings. It's like "penultimate" being used to mean "ultimate" because people are ignoring the prefix. "Pen-" isn't some Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13980506327238593790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69451.post-1096397482879032372004-09-28T13:51:00.000-05:002004-09-28T13:51:00.000-05:00Yeah, I misuse "hopefully" also. I guess you would...Yeah, I misuse "hopefully" also. I guess you would say "I hope that," instead. But in that case, both senses refer to being full of hope; the difference is in what they modify, the subject or the speaker.<br /><br />"Epicenter" and "center," however, have different semantic meanings. It's like "penultimate" being used to mean "ultimate" because people are ignoring the prefix. "Pen-" isn't some Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13980506327238593790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69451.post-1096390782724795602004-09-28T11:59:00.000-05:002004-09-28T11:59:00.000-05:00What are your thoughts then, I wonder, on a word l...What are your thoughts then, I wonder, on a word like "<A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dhopefully">hopefully</A>"? I misuse that one myself all the time, and it's only recently that I've become aware that it is a misuse. When does it become a losing battle? And how much is it ignorance as someone using what they've been taught (admittedly by Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550414473884327823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69451.post-1096381421293191592004-09-28T09:23:00.000-05:002004-09-28T09:23:00.000-05:00You mistake me, Meeker. New words, new application...You mistake me, Meeker. New words, new applications of words, these are the beautiful evolution of language. Being ignorant about the meaning of a word and assuming that it means the same as another word it <I>sounds</I> like just makes one sound uneducated.<br /><br />"Ooh, earthquakes have epicenters, and this is a big shake up, so we must be at the epicenter." No, monkey, the word you want is Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13980506327238593790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69451.post-1096322332588086212004-09-27T16:58:00.000-05:002004-09-27T16:58:00.000-05:00"Eighty-two percent of the Panel accepts the sente..."Eighty-two percent of the Panel accepts the sentence 'If Rushdie were not at the terrifying epicenter of this furor, it is the sort of event he might write about.'"<br /><br />Sometimes I think humans have too much time on our collective hands.Zallekinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03861989137356747806noreply@blogger.com