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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.
Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.
August 22, 2025 at 12:08pm August 22, 2025 at 12:08pm
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Prompt:
It is said, the English language is very difficult to learn because of all the commonly spelled words there are. Do you agree or disagree? How many words can you think of that you think are easily confusing? And words that you think are commonly misspelled? Do you find yourself checking to be sure when you're writing or let spell check find them?
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I don't think English is that difficult to learn. The basic English, grammar and such, is mostly well organized. I can say this since, as a linguist, I've studied quite a few languages, except for the far eastern ones; however, I can only speak about three, but I can read and understand several others partly or as a whole. On the other hand, English vocabulary is very rich, since so many different influences have forced themselves on the language and an enormous amount of words have seeped into English from other cultures. This is what makes spelling so difficult for some. I'm guessing, words that came in from the outside of the language can be difficult to spell for the users, especially those longer ones of several syllables.
Yes, I now check what I write often for spelling and other mistakes, not because of the language's idiosyncrasies, but because, lately, due to old age, my eyes are somewhat failing. Also, with the new technologies, the do-gooder, overly enthusiastic AI programs change the words into wrong meanings, when I'm not looking. Even though, now that I've slowed my typing speed greatly and on purpose, I still find that some words have been changed into different ones after I've checked a paragraph as safe, earlier.
This doesn't happen in WdC, though. For that reason, sometimes, I write the whole thing straight from scratch on a WdC page or entry, directly.
The problem, I suspect, is mostly Microsoft 11's and MS Office's doing, and sometimes, things also happen on the Messenger section of Facebook. This is not my conclusion only. Several people I know are having difficulties with Ai and Windows. One of them says that after she writes a whole message, the system sends a blue color over her writing and deletes the whole thing. This never happened to me because I am trying to be extra vigilant.
What is more annoying than the idiosyncrasies of any language, therefore, is the eager-beaver attitude of companies to use the new technologies without fully educating their workers.
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