 Drama: May 17, 2023 Issue [#11962] |
This week: Chaos and Confusion Edited by: Lilli 🧿 ☕  
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“Our language is funny – a ‘fat chance’ and a ‘slim chance’ are the same thing.”
~ J. Gustav White
“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.”
~ Doug Larson
“The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
~ G. K. Chesterton |
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With today’s technology, it is easy to become lazy and let spell-check function as the editor of the first draft. However, it cannot distinguish context and may not catch some errors, especially when the word you type has a homonym, and you have chosen the incorrect word. The wrong word may be spelled correctly, but it doesn’t mean it’s the right word for the sentence.
This week we will look at some commonly confused words.
 Accept/Except
Accept is a verb that means to "agree or receive favorably."
I accept the invitation to the party.
Except is often used as a preposition meaning "excluding, leaving out, but."
I would go except it's too far.
Affect/Effect
Affect is more commonly used as a verb that means "to influence or have an effect on."
The player's knee injury affected his performance in the play.
Effect, on the other hand, is more often used as a noun that means "influence."
The player's knee injury had a negative effect on his performance in the play.
Effect is also used as a verb with the meaning of "bring about or cause."
An accident at an Indiana oil refinery effected the rise in gas prices.
Already/All ready
Already is an adverb meaning "by or before a certain time", "by now", or "by then."
We have already completed our project.
All ready is a phrase that has a meaning of "being prepared."
The students were all ready for their final exam.
Farther/Further
Farther is used to compare distances only.
We are going to run two miles farther today than we did yesterday.>
Further is used for all other comparisons. It can also mean "additional" or "more."
This assignment needs further clarification.
Who's/Whose
Who's is a contracted form of "who is."
Who's in charge of this project? (Who is in charge of this project?)
Whose is the possessive form of the pronoun who.
Whose project is this?
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Comments received in response to my last Drama Newsletter: "Ellipses, Dash, and Slash!" :
W.D.Wilcox  wrote:
I love this newsletter because I will use ellipses or dashes just willy-nilly.
s  wrote:
Just a little note. The editors I've worked with at publishing houses want ellipses to have no spaces - ... - and all have rejected the four dot ellipsis at the end of a sentence. I was taught these rules as well, but it does seem that they are changing. Even in Australia, where the ellipsis still has spaces (. . .), the four-dot ellipsis is no longer used. I'm not sure what to make of it, as (as I already said) the rules you stated are the ones I was taught, but it does seem there is a change in the air. |
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