is uprise the opposite of downfall?
is uprise better than comeuppance?
I am confused. Can someone set me straight here?
I know about upside and downside. Upside is sometimes good or bad depending on context. down side and downsize hmmm mixed feelings about those words too. right side up and upside down why don’t we say downside up when we mean upside down and I have heard of wrongside out but never right side in. isn’t that strange. right side up and right side out are different but could be the same thing if there was a wrong side down, which brings is to left and right with left meaning something remains behind when we move something and right meaning correct but the opposite of that right is wrong not left, and the opposite of the left like left behind is right but in the Navy, left behind is portside aft. and next to I think is abeam, then whe presence of light in a dusty atmosphere is also a beam but the a went its own way and left the beam behind, right? all of these words get all tangled like yarn in a spinster’s sewing basket. Sew far I am confused, I am totally having a Rainman moment here. oh hey Beachbum, I found an adverb cleverly hiding among, amongst oh crap is it among or amongst. let se, between is something shared with 2 people, and among is something shared with more then 2 people so what is amongst, is that a British English thing like whilst,. Crap, I was taught British English as part of learning French Canadian growing up to prepare for life in Quebec, but how strange, Quebec is not a French word. And France is the wrong name for that country, it was once called Gaul. I liked better as Gaul. That’s what the Romans called France, and they called England something different too, was it Angleterre? is that right, that’s what the French call England Angleterre, and Germany is Allemagne and the germans call Great Britain umm Grossbritannen oh no its GrossBritananien no that’s not right either, correction it should be Grossbritannien yes that is it.
so where was I oh yes uprise. uprising is an oppressed people suddenly release and all their energy is expended. expended, sounds like ex spended. but spended is not the past tense of to spend. spent and sent hav that past tense pattern, spend sent what about rent. if the past tense condition is rent, then what is the present tense? if the pattern is spent= past of to spend, then rent = past tense of to rend. but rend means to tear, and to rent means to pay to use. I am struggling here. Leo the Wise help me out buddy. Wise means in the manner of or direction, likewise, clockwise, but just plain wise means intelligent and experienced. wise is related to wisdom, wise is an adjective and wisdom is a superlative case of wise, so rise is the initial form and the superlative form of rise is risdom. well f~~~ me that isn’t correct either. lol I made up the superlative case here, don’t bother looking it up. I know something about linguistics just enough to sound superlative at parties, it gets the girls all tingly inside. oh inside and outside upside and downside, and backside. is there a frontside, no we say front to the front, at the front, front and center. front.
I am so confused. somebody help me? please
Atton 2 years, 2 months ago.
