Confusing English by Vesna

Pejorative words, confusing words and stuff …

The main idea of this blog is to introduce all those words/phrases/grammar structures that make ESL students, even advanced level ESL speakers confused and insecure about their English skills.

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Love and Delusion

The Ways of Love…

The Ways of Love… “The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange. “- Orson Scott Card Crazy in love – to be deeply in love with someone that you don’t feel like…

Languages

Uncanny valley

Uncanny valley (noun) A term that refers to unpleasant feeling which some people have when they see robots or a computer-generated figure that appear very similar to a living human being. Origin of the term comes from a concept that was first introduced in the 1970s by Masahiro Mori, a Japanese roboticist, then a professor…

Pejorative Words

Balkanisation

Balkanisation/Balkanization (noun) – the process of dividing a country or a larger region into smaller areas where people all dislike or fight each other. Balkanise/Balkanize (verb) – to divide a region/territory into smaller hostile areas. Balkanisation – a geopolitical pejorative term with such a sinister meaning. It was coined in the early 19th century, according…

Confusing Words

Motif vs Motive

Motif a shape or pattern, especially one that is repeated in a design or decoration *traditional motifs *a flower motif Motive a reason for doing something *The motive for the murder is still unknown.

Languages

Beauty of Different Languages…

Dobrý den! It was very pleasant to hear a language different from English and a little bit similar to my native one – Serbian. I make a living from teaching English but let’s preserve and nourish our native languages, too! “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his…

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