"Imply" vs "Infer"
"Imply" vs "Infer"
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These two words have to be the two most misused words in the English language. ![[sadeyes] sadeyes](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/sadeyes.gif)
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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As Web- speak, it belongs there.
Call it Web-onics.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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How about 'affect' and 'effect'?
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Greg Locock
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I will except your assignments until 3pm
I asked her if that meant that I could go see her before 3pm, and I wouldn't have to do mine. She then got very confused. I had to explain the difference between accept and except.
Pitiful.
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He who has the power to enforce determines the correct usage, regardless of what the dictonary says.
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A very common (and very irritating) one is the use of your instead of you're.
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I think they are both equally used, although Orientated is a bit of a mouthful - hard to squeeze in the extra syllable. It's a bit like hearing Americans try to pronunce Worcestershire (as in the sauce).
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Well here's someone else who felt strongly enough to make a webpage about this........
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In my opinion:
Imply is a consequence of
Infer is a deduction of
luis marques
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although the differences are fairly subtle in some contexts.
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its, it's
have, of
Mike, reventative is more correct to my ear, having grown up in the UK. Just call me a pretentious illiterate.
Americann English is significantly different to 'Queens' English. I'd hesitate to say either is wrong, just different (that's not entirely true, if I still lived in the UK I'd say the Yanks were wrong but when in Rome...)
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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irregardless
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I think I proved the point about me being illiterate. Try Preventative not reventative
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Also, "utilize" has a much more specific meaning than "use", though most people seem to think that it's simply a fancy multi-syllable variant of the same word.
Hg
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There are three kinds of people in this world; those who can count and those who can't.
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Inspector: "Are you implying I'm an idiot?"
Wilt: "No I'm inferring you're an idiot. You're implying it."
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go past." Douglas Adams
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I realize the use of "verbal" to mean "oral" goes back centuries, but I don't like it. "Verbal" means "with words" and thus does should not exclude "written".
But English Is As She Is Spoke, and I lose on this one.
Hg
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I wonder whether insulation and isolation, frequently misapplied, belong to this discussion.
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I don't know if he's an engineer though.
...or did I mean unwittingly.....
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Good Luck
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Greg mentioned affect and effect.
Effect gives rise to effective, efficient, efficacious, and effectual. I think most people just use effective and efficient, apart from when singing Lilly the Pink.
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Strange that rose, rows, rhos and roes are seldom misspelt. I think there are 15 meanings for the same sound.
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A - "We will give them verbal authorization to proceed today and followup with written authorization on Monday."
or
B - "We will give them oral authorization to proceed today and followup with written authorization on Monday."
You prefer B?
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What bothers me even more is that it's starting to mean simply "unofficial", as in "I gave them verbal authorization by email". Oy.
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I think it's a safe bet that G.W Bush thinks free body diagrams are something that underage children should not be exposed to. His pronunciation of nuclear is a dead giveaway.
HCBFlash (Electrical) 21 Oct 07 20:12
irregardless of you're politics, George W Bush frequently constructs and moderates discussions like this,,,,, unknowingly.
I don't know if he's an engineer though.
...or did I mean unwittingly.....