Click here to play with this week's Unconscious Mutterings.- Destined : to fail
- FAIL : too weird
- Camping : campground
- Only you : can make my life complete
- Incessant : mutterings
- Tomorrow : is another day
- Impressive : resumé
- Riches : wealth
- Dislike : hate
- Speaker : phone
Number 3 was not so much a synonym, but a recurrent correction: the French word for campground is le camping, so students often, and rather logically, think that that must be the English word. So I'm often correcting that error. I can hear myself:
No, in English we go camping (to go camping gets written on the board) but the place we go to is called a campground (go to a campground flies up on the board as I speak...)
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Just stopping by to wish you and your family a very Happy New Year. Hoping that 2009 brings you its absolute finest!
Thank you Elisabeth! If I can get our New Year's Eve preparations done, I'll be trying to do the same -- if not, it will wait until tomorrow.
I'm glad we've made our bloggy contact.
Greek students make the same mistake, as the Greek word for campsite is κάμπινγκ, which is in fact the word camping written with Greek letters.
Interesting, Tinsie. It would be interesting to hear someday about your experiences learning English -- I'm assuming it's your second language? Or are you totally bilingual?
Ah but ... I think campground is American English - here we'd say campsite / camping site. 1 little language separated by that itty-bitty ocean!
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