le sigh

[maderr]

I so love it when I can pretend my life is writing and formatting and the like. Thinking of going back to work tomorrow makes me ill. If I could wake up every day and just do stuff related to my writing, that would be bliss.

My computer chair is giving out -__- Sucketh mucheth, cause I so do not have the money for a new one. But I fully expect that any day now, I'm going to lean back without thinking and wind up on the floor moaning in pain. Ah, well.

Pondered going out, but what's the point? After awhile, shopping alone gets depressing, and I have no money anyway. So, today we are reformatting fairytale book. And Sammikins should be done with DwtD soon, so those both should be appearing on amazon at some point this month.

Also, to the writers of the world:

Bemused:

be·mused Pronunciation[bi-myoozd]

–adjective

1. bewildered or confused.
2. lost in thought; preoccupied.

THIS WORD DOES NOT MEAN MILDLY AMUSED

Comments

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

I love it when people confuse similar-sounding words. I laugh so I don't despair at the general stupidity of people.

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one used to bother me (well, to be honest, it still does), but it is used wrong so often that I expect to find a new dictionary entry any time now that gives mildly amused as a definition, bowing to common usage. After all, linguists would tell us that dictionaries don't define words, people do.

Good luck with your chair.^_^

[camden-rehab.livejournal.com]

I've been using bemused wrong... *ashamed* I always thought it meant being amused and confused at the same time. *headdesk*

Anyway, would you like some art? I feel like drawing but can't choose between all the lovely characters... Maybe a Brey/Ruthven scribble...

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Ack. Sorry. I always feel awful when I accidentally yell at a friend >_< It mostly irks me in published works. Srsly. How many people saw it and no one noticed?

Brey/Ruthven scribble sounds lovely ^__^

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

:coughs: Guilty? I also used to think Sage meant vague..... >.>;

[camden-rehab.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't read it as yelling, so no worries. ^__^ I don't write fiction, so it's not so much a problem for me as for proper authors, I guess. =D

Awesomeness. ^^

[mailechan.livejournal.com]

THIS WORD DOES NOT MEAN MILDLY AMUSED

YES. THANK YOU. I know so many people who don't understand that. They think it's a mixture of bewildered and amused, and damn it, it's NOT.

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

THIS WORD DOES NOT MEAN MILDLY AMUSED

I used to see this word all the time when I was younger and get so, well, bemused, because in my 12-year-old mind I thought it meant amused but it didn't make sense in most context (though sometimes it did and that really confused me).

XD then one day I looked it up.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

IT DOESNT? D:

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I think I've used bemused to mean mildly amused as well. ^^;

Personally, I appreciate having stuff like that pointed out because there are a couple of words I want to use incorrectly and if I'm aware of it, I can double check myself. Like dearth. My first inclination is that it means "a whole bunch" when in fact I know it means the opposite. I always have to make sure I'm using it correctly.

Then there are a few words I deliberately made up/use incorrectly just to annoy people. Like amblivious. XD

[feuervogel87.livejournal.com]

To be honest, when I first started reading English fiction I, too, thought that bemused had something to do with amused, possibly because they sound so similar.
But over time I got the right meaning, all without looking it up. And considering I've never even been to an anglophone county and all I've had to go on was other people's writing, there's hope yet, right?

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

That's funny, I just came across "bemused" in the paper today, and was going to look up the definition, since I didn't really know how it's supposed to be used (and I never trust the paper to use proper grammar). Thanks!

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

I was going to post to this, but you said everything I wanted to. Yes, so very much ditto.