Something I used to hear the nurses on the ortho unit all the time used to sound so strange to me, but maybe I'm the only one. They would describe a patient as painful, meaning they were experiencing a great deal of pain. Now to me, an injury is painful, but not a person.
Unfortunately for me, this is how it is commonly pronounced in my area and how I learned to say it as a child. I try to correct it, but axed still comes out about 50% of the time.
I get a kick out of regional word differences, whether it's pronunciation of a word like "ask" and "axe" or just two different words for the same thing. Around here if you order a coke it's called a can of pop, elsewhere it's a can of soda.
I get a kick out of regional word differences, whether it's pronunciation of a word like "ask" and "axe" or just two different words for the same thing. Around here if you order a coke it's called a can of pop, elsewhere it's a can of soda.
It’s a cold drink here. “Cold drink” specifically refers to soda like coke or sprite.
I am with you on this particular nonsense. Lose is nowhere the same as loose and see it messed up so frequently here is annoying as all get out! I've reached the point when every time I read about some poor nurse that is for sure going to "loose" her license over something so trivial there's no way a license is actually in danger of being set loose in the wild I picture in my head a license growing little wings and flying off somewhere tropical! Makes me giggle about it instead of getting all aggravated by a supposedly intelligent, educated nurse not knowing the difference between these two very different words.
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On 1/16/2019 at 11:26 AM, kakamegamama said:
I'm not sure why your bothered by they're use of "lose" vs "loose". If they loose there shoes their won't be a need for them to work, but that might make you're workload heavier. Of course, you can always eat shoot and leave.
This had me tempted to use the thumbs down option. I refrained, only because I knew it was in jest. But still made me cringe!
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1 hour ago, kbrn2002 said:
I am with you on this particular nonsense. Lose is nowhere the same as loose and see it messed up so frequently here is annoying as all get out! I've reached the point when every time I read about some poor nurse that is for sure going to "loose" her license over something so trivial there's no way a license is actually in danger of being set loose in the wild I picture in my head a license growing little wings and flying off somewhere tropical! Makes me giggle about it instead of getting all aggravated by a supposedly intelligent, educated nurse not knowing the difference between these two very different words.
@Davey Do I do believe we need your artistic skills here (Pretty please?)
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2 hours ago, Rose_Queen said:
This had me tempted to use the thumbs down option. I refrained, only because I knew it was in jest. But still made me cringe!
It's a bit like fingernails down the chalkboard, perhaps? I spend hours grading papers of students, many who are already nurses, with similar errors...painful!
Diffuse and defuse are the ones that irritate me. You don't diffuse an escalating situation, you defuse it. You're not trying to spread the situation around, you're trying to reduce the danger or tension in it! ?
I've never known the word "defuse". I always thought of "diffusing" a situation as breaking it up ...or breaking it down. It makes sense to me, even if it's technically wrong.
In diffusion, particles are moving away from each other/go from high concentration to low. So to diffuse is to decrease a thing's intensity. If you ask me "de-fuse" is the weird-sounding thing; sure there are other words like this but for the most part our daily actions are not described with this pattern. We don't "de-dirt," we clean. Etc.
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Something I used to hear the nurses on the ortho unit all the time used to sound so strange to me, but maybe I'm the only one. They would describe a patient as painful, meaning they were experiencing a great deal of pain. Now to me, an injury is painful, but not a person.
Am I the only one who thinks this is weird ?