Things you are too embarrassed to admit you don't understand

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I don't think I really understand what a fascist is.

If you’re unsure Fakemeateater, post some sentences and I’ll be happy to help you.

Gross is the bigger number, as in grossly fat. And you never get to keep the bloody bigger number 😂 That's how it sticks in my head anyway.

Grief - the older I get and tbh the older we all get - we are still rubbish about coping and expressing grief - I just thought with age it would become ,.... Not easier, more .....normal? If that is the correct word

Thank you @Sallysmate. That's really kind of you.

So when I think of affect, I always think of it as changing an emotion. So I might write something like 'That performance really affected me', but then I know effect is also to do with change, and think oh should it be 'That performance really effected me'. I'd use something different entirely different like 'That performance really caused me to feel (insert).

Another. 'This weather really effects the amount of washing I have'. Now I think that might be right, because I just feel affect is correlated to emotions, but I still wouldn't be confident to use it and I'd write, 'This weather means I can't get any washing done'.

Me too! I can never remember which of the two is more acceptable 😁

We were always taught, just think which hand do you write with?
To this day I form a rapid mental picture of me writing before I decide 🤓

@ Fakemeateater.
”That performance really affected me” (had an influence upon me).
(That performance really effected me would mean to bring you about/result in you which doesn’t make sense.)
“The weather really affects the amount of washing I have” (it influences how much washing you can do).
Keep them coming.

Nouns and verbs. (In English.)

Feminine and Masculine things in French.

Interest/savings/compound interest/investing
I get why to save but not how it works 😳

like what amount of money saved would give you enough interest to get you £2k/month? Is this what rich people do?

These are great!

IMO...

ENVY... Wishing you have something a particular other person has.

JEALOUSY... Wishing you have something a particular other person has, and wishing they didn't have it!

Like, jealousy is laced a lot more with resentment and even hatred.

Envy is just 'awwww they are so lucky, I wish I had it!'

I don’t understand the pensions triple lock that is often talked about. In fact I understand very little about pensions, apart from the fact that I pay into one.

How people become friends.

Maths physics chemistry biology are no problem!!

on that note enzymes are easiest to think of as biological catalysts (& they're proteins which means they are complex shapes made of long chains of amino acids)
a catalyst is something that speeds up a chemical reaction /reduces the energy required for for a chemical reaction to take place without being part of or used up by the reaction.

@PuckyMup to get £24,000 per year in interest (after tax) would depend on what the interest rate is for the account your money is in. If the interest rate was 2% and you paid higher rate tax then you'd need about £1.2 million in that account.

So, yes, money makes money.

@Sallysmate I got the one I was unsure of correct, and the one that I thought was right, incorrect 🤣. Thanks for your help. I'm going to keep reading until it does make sense. I'm usually pretty good with spelling and grammar, not amazing, but I get by, but these two words terrify me. I'm probably comma heavy sometimes too 😁

Nouns are naming words, e.g. SweetBirdsong, table, Thursday, July. Think of them as labels.

Verbs are ‘doing words’ (actions), e.g walk, walking, walked.

I struggle with shades. So primary colors all good. Bold obvious colours good.
Create a pale blueish colour and stick it with no context (eg not near a blue, purple or even teal) and I can’t tell you reliably what it is. But if it’s tealish and it’s by lavender, I can see it’s not the same but still might not be able to tell you which is which, just that they’re different.
Colouring with felt tips as a kid - brown/red/green are all very similar shades rather than primary colour bold & separate. Sometimes the same for blue & purple, but yellow & orange were very different - I have red/green colourblindness. I don’t wear make up as shades are my nemesis so can’t always pick appropriately or blend well enough. Does that make any sort of sense?

Pensions, not a scobby do

@Sallysmate I'm quite confident to use them in speech, but I'm from Yorkshire and we'd say them pretty much the same way. We wouldn't really emphasise the 'e' or 'a'. Yorkshire is a big place, and there will be certain parts that do probably emphasise, but where I come from, you can't really hear the difference between the two. I also think this is an issue with my understanding.

@ Fakemeateater. I’m always happy to help. PM me if you’d prefer.
There’s plenty on this thread which goes right over my head!
😂
I tend to use fewer commas than others. It can come down to personal style.
If in doubt read aloud what you’ve written, taking an intake of breath where there is a comma (used to ‘slice up’ a sentence to aid understanding).
Does your, spoken sentence, with the pauses, make sense?
Does your spoken sentence, with the pauses, make sense?
😉

& @tootallfortheshelf

Envy is wanting what someone else has, a sense of longing for the thing and feeling you're missing out by not having it. Envy says "I want this so much".

Jealousy is wanting what someone else has and wanting to take it off them, feeling justified (wrongly) in doing so. Jealousy is the more destructive of the two emotions because of this, it can even lead to murder if the thing someone has that another person wants is happiness or joy of life or control over their own life. Jealousy says "if I can't have it, you can't either".

Mine is gas and electric. I'm on the basic variable rate and pay it quarterly because trying to understand and keep up with changes to all the other options (which are meant to be cheaper) makes my brain melt.

@Sallysmate definitely the latter, and that's how I use commas. I use them as natural pauses when writing, or when a piece of information might not be necessary and could be omitted. Also when writing a list.

Spot on. They demarcate subordinate clauses (additional but unnecessary information) and items in a list.

I rarely admit but I can't get my head around pensions, mortgages, taxes and when someone patiently tries to explain them I end up more confused than ever.

I've also tried to learn chess and more complex card games, I tried for years! But I can't seem to grasp strategy or forward thinking.

All these things seem to cause a short circuit in my poor brain.

I used to think I understood plenty of others stuff though, like the meaning of words and concepts but after reading this thread I might as well give up 🤪

I enjoy watching tennis, but don't really understand the "let" "first service" "second service" rules 🤷‍♀️