Actually, I'm not sure what made me decide to start writing, or if this will continue past today/next week/a month from now. I'm not really a big writer, so this is a little bit of new concept. Mostly I love reading about other people's lives (OH MY GOD WHAT A CREEPER!!!), so why can't people read about mine. That being said, here goes nothing:
While I was thinking of a title for this blog/thing/random collection of my thoughts/etc. I remembered a debate I got into a few years back about the word forté.
Dictionary.com: 1.
a strong point, as of a person; that in which one excels
Anywayyyyyy, I thought it was pronounced 4-tay, yes, just like that, but my friend KNEW that is was pronounced fort, like those big stone buildings from a really long time ago. Turns out I was right, haha I win!, but there was a fun little picture that resulted from the discussion.
And that's the story behind the title of this post. Or the whole blog? I think I just made a post solely to explain the title of the post. That's kind of counterproductive.
Wow, talk about randomness, that's me.
6 comments:
You pooooosted. I hope you enjoy blogging :-)
I enjoy your blogging!!
i found you on 20somethings... and this post made me smile:)
I'm bad at making decisions too, in fact I ended up with a ridiculous blog name because of it.
Hope you keep your blogging up!
Random works for me!
The pronunciations "fort" and "four-tay" are two different things. "fort" is a strength, whereas "forte" is a volume. They are both spelled "forte" (neither with an accent mark). They're homonyms, but not homophones (like polish/Polish, wind/wind, etc.).
But I think that the pronunciation "four-tay" has been added to the dictionary for both meanings due to the amount of incorrect usage.
Just for the record. ;)
Touché Angela.
Upon further examination, you are correct in your explanation. Apparently my mistakes are a mixed result of some poor education somewhere, my experience as a musician and my somewhat limited knowledge of French.
In the future I'll have to do a little more research! :-p
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