[stylist] confusing similar words

Barbara Hammel poetlori8 at msn.com
Fri Aug 28 18:26:58 UTC 2009


And are they screenreader friendly?  I used to try to use Webster's but I 
had a difficult time with it.  I have a Franklin Language Master that I use, 
although now I'm about to go crazy with writer's block.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:18 AM
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> Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com are two sites that have helped my writing 
> a lot.  Hope they help you too.  Judith
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Well there is a good case for Braille.  I did not know there were 2 
>> separate
>> words.  I thought it was simply 2 senses of the same word.  Thank you.
>>
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>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
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>> c o m p l e m e n t is the balancer because it completes it.
>> Barbara
>>
>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom
>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>
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>> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:26 AM
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>>> Complement and Compliment.
>>> One means to praise, to speak well of. The other means to reinforce, or 
>>> to
>>> make up for one's deficiencies, or balance one out. Which is which?
>>>    There's another pair of words that's been bugging me lately, but 
>>> right
>>> now I can't think of it.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Angela Fowler
>>>
>>> fowlers at syix.com
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