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| theyweed Senior Member Poland Joined 3815 days ago 23 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 5 17 September 2014 at 8:40am | IP Logged |
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I have a problem with spelling as far as -ous,-eous,ious, endings are concerned. IS there
any rule governing those endings? The helpful "y" doesn't apply here, for we've luxury - luxurious and on the other hand calamity - calamitous 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5602 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes  | Message 2 of 5 17 September 2014 at 9:04am | IP Logged |
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Learn Latin! ;-) I suppose, there are etymological reasons:
calamitas, -atis / calamitosus has no i, luxuria (luxuries) / luxuriosus has an i in it. And the pronunciation is different: calamitous ends in [-ɪtəs], but luxurious in [-əriəs] 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Xenops Senior Member United States thexenops.deviantart Joined 3828 days ago 112 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 3 of 5 20 September 2014 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
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As a native (American) English speaker that does not know Latin, the best we can do is sound out the word, but otherwise memorize it. :( That's probably why a lot of Americans rely on auto-correct.
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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4625 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 4 of 5 22 September 2014 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
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Funny how a language that is a complete mish-mash ended up as the nearest thing we have to a global standard language.
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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6440 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 5 of 5 23 September 2014 at 5:26am | IP Logged |
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I just tried to make a thread but it added it as a reply to this thread. The forum might be a feature that could accept some verifying. Edited by IronFist on 23 September 2014 at 5:44am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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