Concerning this one, perhaps I can offer a bit of confusion-increasing help. A couple of lines of the Irish song The Hungry Army – supposedly in the words of a nineteenth-century Irishman who reluctantly joins the British Army, and has a miserable time therein. He means to imply that he sold his services to the British Empire, his country’s oppressor:
“So I sold myself to the power of Guelph,
And I went and joined the hungry army.”
Presumably the song-maker was desperate for a rhyme for “self” – but he used, above, the wrong faction in the medieval Italian business – the proponents of the Empire in all that, were the Ghibellines. This quirk of the song confuses the heck out of me, and I always have to look the point up. It might just be the extra element of confusion, that you need…
Nope, we need Lepidus for an awesome example of Augustan revenge – Augustus deliberately kept the guy alive after purging most of his other enemies. Imagine being nervous about opening your front door for the final 25 years of your life.
Not the reason for the rule, but a justification, is that “ci” has a “sh” sound in words like “musician” and “special,” and there are a lot of Italian loan words in English in which “ci” has a “ch” sound.
The word that trips me up is “achieve.” I type the C, and so then I want to type “ei” in spite of the intervening H.
I can never remember where I parked my car. It’s not a refusal, though.
I refuse to remember that George Lucas made a Star Wars “prequellogy.” Also, if your name is Emily, but spelled Emmuhleighe, I will not remember it. If I am never going to see you again, what’s the point? and if I work with you, I’ll just CP it whenever I need to send you and email or memo.
I never had any trouble remembering the difference between a bactrian and a dromedary, because for years, I’d seen (in pictures and zoos) only two-humped camels. The first time I saw a one-humped camel, the person with me called it a dromedary, so for years, I thought the two-humped version was a camel-- never heard the word “bactrian,” and a dromedary was an entirely different animal. Once I heard the word “bactrian,” and had the whole thing explained, I had a more difficult time recalling the word “bactrian,” than remembering that the two-humped creature was just one variety of camel.
After this thread, though, I expect confusion to ensue.
It seems that traditionally it was taught in the USA that a Dromedary was one thing and a (Bactrian) Camel another, but even in the past they are in the same family scientifically speaking.
Joseph Campbell reported with amusement examples of advertisements from the early 20th century that showed Camel cigarettes with a Dromedary on the cover and Dromedary Dates had a Bactrian Camel on theirs.
So we had a tradition of confusing who has one or two humps and another confusion for the ones that think that a dromedary is not a camel.
The original tradition of naming the one humped one just a dromedary and not a camel ended in big part thanks to the efforts of the cigarette company that continued to plough ahead even if advertiser groups of the day (1919) told them they were “wrong”.
The Dromedary Dates people did correct their advertisement early, and so we have just the cigarette people for the blame of correcting one misunderstanding (the one about the dromedary not being a camel) on one hand, but on the other they are still causing confusion for not being precise enough (not mentioning that it is a dromedary camel).
I cannot remember the difference between Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
I also have a hard time remembering the name of that actor…you know the one from Hollywood Squares…he was in Bye Bye Birdie…the one that Roger from American Dad sounds like!
FFS, he has the same first name as my son. Oh yeah, Paul Lynde! I love that guy.
Accounts payable = something you’re expected to pay.
Accounts receivable = something you expect to receive.
Not too hard.
If you get it backwards because you can’t remember whether they’re named from your point of view or your counterparties’ point of view, that’s tougher. But in general things are named and described from your own point of view.
e.g. Your left hand is the one on *your *left, even though when I’m standing here face-to-face looking at you, your left hand is to *my *right as I look at you.
p.s. I hope I didn’t just cause you from now on to not know which hand is which
