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In the spirit of Batman's word of the day... Let's take a look at pairs of words many people confuse. Affect and Effect These two are hard. It gets so much easier after this, I promise. Affect is the...

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You know about the Tall Ship Rose?!?! Do many people you know? Is my home really in that bad an area of the country for one of my major interests? (no, Mom, it's not a funny looking stick...) P.S....

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LOL, Yep I know it because once upon a time I dated a major sailing aficionado (or perhaps "cultist" is a more accurate term). He had even considered going on one of those working-cruises. Don't know...

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I would second Chris' recommendation of the Horatio Hornblower movies, having seen all sixteen hours' worth. And I've just started reading the first Master and Commander novel. I have one of my...

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The only technical difference is Latin and Greek. Malfunction uses the Latin mal- prefix meaning bad. Dysfunction uses the Greek dys- meaning ill. However the other places dys- is used it is most...

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Huh. Learn something new every day! I'd always applyed the terms as: Dysfunctional=Forget it, that thing is never going to work! Malfunction=Its broke, but it can be repaired. Which, now that I think...

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If one Googles for information about misdoings among political bigshots, one is apt to come across this one.indite (in-DYT) is a verb meaning to write or to compose.indict DID start out as a simple...

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On last week's episode of Monk, his brother articulated the difference between "sarcastic" and "sardonic". Could you explain that a little better? Sincerely, Allaine

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I have no idea what Monk said, so I doubt this will explain it any better. But Dictionary.com has this to say:Synonyms: sarcastic, ironic, caustic, satirical, sardonic These adjectives mean having or...

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Is it true what someone told me? That the difference between the psychologist and the psychiatrist is that the psychologist isn't as well-trained? Sincerely, Allaine

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Yep, according to Estronaut, A Forum for Women's Health: The Psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who deals with mentally ill patients. Psychiatrists are MDs, so they can prescribe medication....

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I would say no. Do psychiatrists have more training than spychologists? Yes. But, in my opinion, they are no more "well"-trained than psychologists. They just deal with problems that require different...

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It's a fair point you raise, Sailor, it really is. In our rush to dash off a few cute little epigrams (plugging today's word of the day), we no doubt slandered a good few psychologists whose learning,...

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What is the distinction between sympathy and empathy? I've gotten the impression that sympathy is feeling sorry for someone because you can imagine how it must be for them, and that empathy is feeling...

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We've done that one already: early in this thread

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Saw it just now on a website, winced, had to hunt this topic up to post it: You do not wet somebody's appetite; you whet it, or sharpen it, just as they used to whet blades against a whetstone....

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We did some of these already, but this time they are in excerp from a book worth getting and plugged below Quote:flammable/inflammable I know this one is weird, but these words are synonyms. They both...

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One I seem to be running into far to often:bare and bear A Batman that bears something is NOT the same as a Batman that bares it. The first is just gnashing his teeth, the second will get arrested for...

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Here's another one for wincing. People writing someone's in a fowl mood or using fowl language. It would of course be foul. the "Unless you're a chicken." M

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Rogue and Rouge. This one was the bane of my early existance on this board. Rogue: Devil-May-Care fellow, or in this case, the criminals (As in: Rogues gallery) Rouge: Women's makeup, end of story....

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