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.

I think the taking from this thread is that none of us should really be embarrassed about things we can't quite understand or grasp.

Everyone learns differently, has different skills, enjoys things that don't interest others, and probably knows more/less about something than somebody else.

Great thread OP.

I don't understand how the scoring on cricket, tennis or hurling works. I'm happy to stay ignorant to it though 😂

@SweetBirdsong how I learnt them 25 years ago 🤣
a noun is is name on its own it is plain to describe it give it and adjective.
Verbs do verbs are a sentence with out them won't go very far!

Okay here's my non mathematician answer and how I understand it.

Say you earned 10k a year and then got an extra 120% raise you would earn 22k a year. As 120% of 10k is 12k and since that's ontop of your wage added together that makes 22k.

I can understand your confusion as you can't fill a 1 litre container 120% to 1.2litres or travel at more than 100% the speed of light. But sometimes you can just imagine 100% is just normal quantity x 1, whereas 200% is normal quantity x 2. Xx

Flat earthers - have they not asked Tim Peake. He'd know for definite he's been in space.

pensions and stock and shares - I don't understand any of it.

Imagine putting your finger on a ball. Lift it up and draw a line before putting it down. Just because you've travelled around the ball doesn't change which bit of your finger is nearest to the ball.

Thank you @DomingoinLittleOakley You have explained it in a much simpler way and it actually makes sense to me now. I get it! 😃

Probably shouldn't admit this but hey ho - I can never remember what nouns, verbs, and adjectives are.

I have a BA English with a First and a MA English with a Distinction, and I'm a published author! But can I heck remember what each one means! It was taught really badly to us in primary school and somewhere along the process of unlearning the bad info I've totally muddled everything!

Cashback
Matched Betting.

I feel I would be richer if I understood either of them!

"naming" words, "doing" words, "describing" words.

That's how it was taught to me in the 70's. Can't remember spending more than an afternoon on it, and it's stuck with me ever since.

The concept of infinite, specially an infinite universe. I've watched dozens of documentaries but it still does my head in.

@XDownwiththissortofthingX that's really helpful. I remember being told that you don't apostrophise years as a plural, it took about 1 minute in the 90s and it's stuck with me.

Wi-Fi

*possessive 🤣

Rice krispies. How do they know which will snap, which will crackle and which will pop?

Envy to me is harmless and healthy but jealousy can be dangerous.

Given that people have worn protection amulets against the evil eye for millennia, it is clear that envy is not harmless!

Invidia - Wikipedia

Biological washing powder uses enzymes and is better for stain removal, non biological is more for sensitive skin. Two of my sons have excema and any time we’ve used biological washing powder they’ve broken out in the most horrendous rashes

The difference between net & gross in terms of salary. Just can't get it to stick in my brain
My friend explained it to me as net is what you take in, like a fisherman!

Haven’t read the full full thread so will go through it and hope someone else doesn’t understand inflation!!

This is true . " the patient has a flat affect". Related to affectation.
Think of it generally though as Affect is A verb. A doing word.
This food will affect my dog. Running will affect my health.

Effect , I remember by using effective.
That raffle was not very effective = that raffle had little effect. ( a noun).
That's probably as clear as mud .Apologies

English teacher here...we tend not to teach verbs in this way any more as they are also used for states of being eg 'I am', 'He was'

Thank you - this has just made me look up the difference between invidious and insidious!

I love the word egregious - if you Google its etymology, it might help it stick. Its root in Latin is ‘ex’ (out) ‘grex’ (flock). So, standing out from the flock.

I have been an English teacher for 22 years. 'Being' is still an action. I would still consider a verb to be an action word.

Also, how do people not understand that gross income is untaxed income? What the hell? I'm shocked that adults don't understand simple concepts like this.

I just don't understand right wing/left wing. No idea what they mean.