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[-] [email protected] 82 points 7 months ago

it’s the word “finite” with de- in the beginning and -ly at the end. That’s how I remember.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

That's actually helpful. Thanks.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Also helps to think of the word "definitely" as meaning "by definition"

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah i don't know to spell defenition

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Did you mean "defenestration"?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That helps, but it doesn't help me remember if it's "definitely", "definitley", or "definitly".

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

It's not like this superficially either. That's literally what the word is.

finite - to have a limit, be bounded

The de- part is acting like it does in words like defraud. It's not a negative, like you might see in detox, where it means to remove something or undo something. Instead, it simply insists something has been done, not unlike the suffix -ify. You've been defrauded. In a manner of speaking, you could say you've been "fraud-ified".

You could say something that has been defined has been "finite-ified". The possibilities of what it could be were limitless, but you restricted them to something specific. You've made it finite. You've defined it. It is definite.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I always told people "definitely is spelled like infinitely, so just remember how to spell infinite"

But I suppose "finite" is even better than "infinite" since there's less to remember.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's more that finite is easier because it has the long I sound at the beginning which clearly designates it as I. The short i sound in most English dialects is a middling kind of "ehh" sound that can be confused for an e a lot when sounding out a word. When I misspell definitely it's because I spell it defenitely.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My reasoning for why "infinite" would be easy to remember is because "infinity" is notably a word with only i as a main vowel (excluding the y)

But I see what you mean too

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

My reasoning is that infinite is pronounced like definite, unlike finite which is pronounced nothing like definite.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Defiantly going to remember how to spell it now!

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

People online tell me that language is fluid and spelling is interpretive. Just let your reviewers know that if they mark anything!

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

i hope i never have to write beruacracy in an academic context

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I can tell.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Conventions of English be damned, I spell it defiantly.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You sure do.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Me, writing an entire sentence describing process, rules and hierarchy within an organization so that I don't have to try to spell the single word which describes this concept:

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Definitively definite defined definition.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

this is why i'm enjoying learning steno, if i forget how to spell a word i can usually just sound it out :^)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is still a thing? Where? Why?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

steno's not just court, it's still the easiest way to do live tv captioning and CART and such
there's also still a big hobbyist group around it, plover and hobbyist stenoboards have made it pretty easy to get into from that angle instead

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Live tv captioning is a thing? Tho i get the hobbyist thing, just didn't think of that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

yep! think news broadcasts and such, certain places have requirements on how much of live tv is captioned and to what accuracy to be accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Cool to know. Would've absolutely not thought there's still a need of steno at all. Haven't consumed any TV in the last 3 decades, so i might be really off the pulse of time :-)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It's rreeccoommeenndd and so many others for me ...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

"Commend" is not as difficult for me so I just remember it as re-commend

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oohh, I'll try to remember thqt, thanks!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Assuming the error is with accidentally writing defiantly in lieu of definitely, I used to tell myself "There is definitely not an a in definitely."

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I always remember the phrase, "If you spell definitely with an 'a' you're definitely an asshole". Harsh, but it stuck in my head really well.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Can you do “effect” versus “affect” for me?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That one's easy. That's discreet vs. discrete tier stuff. Get me some of that say your piece / peace stuff, awwww yeah—I'm defiantly good at grammer.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Effect is a vErb.

Affect is a nAhn.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I did enjoy the glut of people online defiantly doing very mundane things

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Necessary and necessarily for me. Can't spell 'em to save my life.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

De-finite-ly

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I defiantly agree that you need a doctorate degree to type that word.

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