Who ? Me?
Maybe I used the word proliferate wrongly, but you dont have to make it sound like my English is really abysmal.
Who? Me? wrote
"why do you use words like abode, propensity, proliferating, etc.? we don't live in the 19th century anymore and you don't own a weapon of mass destruction"
May Ong wrote:
"why are we critiqueing her English? why the lecture on vocabulary?
she has her own style. i find her bombastic style unique and fun to read in a way. much more fun than the flat and dry and uninspired prose most of us write in"
Propensity and abode, I am sure I didnt use it wrongly, and what has it got to do with nineteenth century? These two words are commonly used in Straits Times and novel, etc and by the way, it does not mean you dont comprehend propensity and abode, meaning others dont, and not that I am trying hard to impress, but I am just trying to put the vocabulary words I learn into use, I think May Ong does understand what I am writing, and she probably understand definition of propensity and abode.
Maybe you can read all the posts I post on this thread, I do write simple English at times, I just write whatever comes into mind.
Powder, the definition of thrify meaning careful about spending and not wasting money, to me, buying a house for pil is a waste of money, as they are being invited to stay with their other sons, but pil still insist we buy a house for them. My husband and me got future plans, and we need money for retirement.
And my husband is not rich enough to buy them resale HDB, a resale two room HDB cost about two hundred k, and my husband has to pay all in cash to buy it under their name, you think its so easy to fork out two hundred k at once?