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To: LPS5 who wrote (7)	2/14/2001 6:46:45 AM
From: Quahog	Respond to of 20

Along those lines, how about when someone says he is "disorientated." The best I can tell, being disorientated means "not facing east." A tougher one is when someone says he is "nauseous." I don't think the person really means that he is causing others to be nauseated. I have produced dictionaries to prove this point, and to date I have never convinced a single person that he is using the wrong word. My favorite, pointed out to me once by NittanyLion, was a guy on RB who wrote something like, "Are we supposed to believe in this product sight on scene?" My contention is that these common mistakes indicate that the writer is not a big fan of reading. It doesn't mean that the person is stupid or uneducated, only that reading for pleasure is not among his or her hobbies. I had the opposite problem as a teenager. I read a lot, and so I developed a large vocabulary....but didn't have an opportunity to hear these words in speech. So, when I tried them out I frequently mis-pronounced them. I think I was about 12 years old when I learned that the word "unique" was not pronounced (un-i-kyew').