Words that you don't know the meaning until you google search

[Telstra]

What words are they ??

Mine is
perpetual

 

[luckynumbah7]

Fungible. I don't usually find many words I'm unfamiliar with unless I'm studying a new topic. Mostly I use google to double check existing words; at a certain point, they really do all run together.

 

[Telstra]

I don't know what Fungible is.
Why not use simple words like replaceable

 

[luckynumbah7]

I don't know what Fungible is.
Why not use simple words like replaceable

Because that is not what it means.

If fungible meant replaceable there wouldn't be two words. 'To replace' is an act, what is equal to be replaceable is more of an object. Synonyms and kiddie-corners are not doubles or duplicates.


Definition of fungible
1
: being something (such as money or a commodity) of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in paying a debt or settling an account Oil, wheat, and lumber are fungible commodities. fungible goods
2
: capable of mutual substitution : interchangeable
… the court's postulate that male and female jurors must be regarded as fungible — George Will
3
: readily changeable to adapt to new situations : flexible
Managers typically use more than a hundred different lineups over the course of the season. Batting orders are so fungible that few players last long in one spot. — Tom Verducci

 

[MrRochesterNY]

What words are they ??

Mine is
[STRIKE]perpetual[/STRIKE] dog, cat

There, fixed it for you, sir.

 

[G-Lexington]

I've been doing some writing lately (as lucky will attest to), and I've found I've picked up some words via osmosis. Where I see a word, figure it out in context, and sort of bring the word into my internal dictionary, where I THINK I know the word and what it means. And then, years after doing so, I go to use it...and I suddenly realize I'm not at all sure I'm using it correctly. I mean, I know what I THINK it means, but does it? A few words I've used recently that I had to verify that I was using correctly were turgid, ruminate, and enervating. Weirdly enough, I had learned all three correctly. They meant exactly what I thought they meant.

Lex

 

[Alistair]

There, fixed it for you, sir.

Very petty

 

[rareboy]

I can't think of any words I've had to look up on Google for definitions...but I sometimes find myself having to verify spelling.

#sosad.

 

[luckynumbah7]

I can't think of any words I've had to look up on Google for definitions...but I sometimes find myself having to verify spelling.

#sosad.

At least you're not dreaming in other languages, that's a pain in the ass. I find it to be, anyway. Might have something to do with punnery and a let-loose imagination, however.

 

[rareboy]

omg.

I was dreaming in Italian Dressing the other night. It is some version of Italian that originates from when I studied in Rome....but seems pretty flexible with Anglo terms incorporated as well.

 

[Alistair]

For the most part I know most words. If not I can get the gist of it by the rest of words.

I will Google a word if I come across something I don't know while reading. I don't recall any that I have tho

 

[luckynumbah7]

omg.

I was dreaming in Italian Dressing the other night. It is some version of Italian that originates from when I studied in Rome....but seems pretty flexible with Anglo terms incorporated as well.

.....you lost me. Italian dressing like the condiment or daydreaming in Italian while dressing....? Mostly mine is Spanish, which I wouldn't mind so much if the nonsense conversations were actually nonsense. Unfortunately I think it might be, at least in part, my brain's way of updating and keeping grammar usage coherent. So while the actual conversation would be largely understandable, the content tends to be daydream/nightdream logic-based. It doesn't help the morning review after waking, is what I'm saying. I prefer dreams where I don't speak at all.

 

[rareboy]

Italian Dressing is like a north amercianised version of the real thing.

Like we call our franglaise bearnaise sometimes...a saucy version of frenchified english or anglicized french.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I can't think of any words I've had to look up on Google for definitions...but I sometimes find myself having to verify spelling.

#sosad.

I do this.

There are words that I looked up that I knew how to use in context but didn't actually know the definition of, though.

 

[luckynumbah7]

I've been doing some writing lately (as lucky will attest to), and I've found I've picked up some words via osmosis. Where I see a word, figure it out in context, and sort of bring the word into my internal dictionary, where I THINK I know the word and what it means. And then, years after doing so, I go to use it...and I suddenly realize I'm not at all sure I'm using it correctly. I mean, I know what I THINK it means, but does it? A few words I've used recently that I had to verify that I was using correctly were turgid, ruminate, and enervating. Weirdly enough, I had learned all three correctly. They meant exactly what I thought they meant.

Lex

The thing with vocabulary (at least for me after learning a single language) is it usually first comes with an image of the action/description in the rest of the concept before it gets to the concrete-ness of a term in actual language. The concept before the speech forms to represent it, let's say. There's so very many ways to describe a thing from multiple fronts that it seems a miasma of possibility is offered. So when words I'm 'iffy' on pop up I usually go on a brief spree of exact multiple definitions with their accompanying synonyms and those synonym's definitions. I've found some mighty weird words/concepts that way. Fungible, for instance, was not used in a manner I associated with the word's individual parts so I swooped on over and checked it out. If it were used in a different sort of sentence than the one I'd found it in, it would've taken me longer to look it up. Not too much longer, I would've waited until the end of a chapter, but I dislike a glaring obscurity when it's staring me in the face and I can fix it immediately.

 

[G-Lexington]

Oh, yes. Google is a great spell-check. "Did you mean...?" Much nicer than "No, stupid gargoyle. It's..."

Lex

 

[luckynumbah7]

Oh, yes. Google is a great spell-check. "Did you mean...?" Much nicer than "No, stupid gargoyle. It's..."

Lex

Occasionally my misspellings turn out to be new words. Rare though.

 

[peeonme]

On occasion Jason will dust off a word and use it and I find myself googling it.

 

[Vannie]

petty

petty

Of small importance. trivial. a petty grievance.

Marked by narrowness of mind, ideas, or views.

Marked by meanness or lack of generosity especially in trifling matters.

 

[Telstra]

I've been doing some writing lately (as lucky will attest to), and I've found I've picked up some words via osmosis. Where I see a word, figure it out in context, and sort of bring the word into my internal dictionary, where I THINK I know the word and what it means. And then, years after doing so, I go to use it...and I suddenly realize I'm not at all sure I'm using it correctly. I mean, I know what I THINK it means, but does it? A few words I've used recently that I had to verify that I was using correctly were turgid, ruminate, and enervating. Weirdly enough, I had learned all three correctly. They meant exactly what I thought they meant.

Lex

Osmosis, no idea what it meant but thanks to google

BIOLOGYCHEMISTRY
a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.
2.
the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.
"by some strange political osmosis, private reputations became public"