If i had to what??

[emmelinemay]

'immigrate?'

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[medusa-nw.livejournal.com]

Retreat to the basement? ;-)

[redlaurie.livejournal.com]

Emmiegreat? ;)

Been thinking alot about going back to San Francisco lately..
Otherwise Stockholm or San Sebastian in the Basque Country :)

[chrisisiddall.livejournal.com]

Portland, or Copenhagen. I'm a big fan of the small city and both have the right kind of vibe to me.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

but IMMIGRATE??

[chrisisiddall.livejournal.com]

It's a special made up for the internet word.

Immigrate; to ignore what spellcheck is telling you.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

oh, internets.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

I used to be amused by one of the HR people at a former workplace who had a habit of sending out emails with the phrase, "this will effect all employees". My usual thought was, "no, that was their parents".

[sera-squeak.livejournal.com]

Aaarghaaarghaaaarghaargh!!!!

The people I work with still have trouble with their/there/they're and your/you're. And these people are in charge of other people's money.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

So many people have problems with effect/affect. But they don't even SOUND the same. If people just took two minutes to re-read what they'd written aloud...

gah.

[kynon.livejournal.com]

Exactly. As pointed out here.

my internet skillz fail - couldn't work out how to post the actual writer's block thinger...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

me neither. I did a Ctrl&Prnt Scrn

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I saw some community the other day, for amateur writers, which promised "We are hear to support you...".
*headdesk*

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

That'll be why they're still amateurs then.

[shackers.livejournal.com]

they call it immigrate in SA, they don't seem to use emigrate.........

[kirstenlj.livejournal.com]

In school in SA I remember being taught to both immigrate and emigrate, specifically to use immigrate when discussing movement into the country you're in and emigrate when discussing leaving for another.

[kynon.livejournal.com]

Isn't that just down to the accent though?

:P

[kynon.livejournal.com]

Is that twinned with Scotchland?

[synthetikbeauty.livejournal.com]

I have always seen is spelled 'immigrate'.
Perhaps it is one of those words that the US spells differently than all the rest of the English speaking world. Such as color and colour, theater and theatre, etc.