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Rysism

Meaning:

Rysism is a moderately rare disease which renders the affected person over-sensitive about grammar and spelling issues. Rysism has an accute form especially in chatrooms and can be irritating when chatters care little about the way sentences are constructed and the wordings spelled. 

Examples of Rysism in everyday usage:

1 - Man, that dude's Rysisim made our chat lame.....caramba!!

2- Hey,man, skip that Rysism and let me babble how I want!

Origin:

The name of this irritating malady deri

It’s marvelous!

An Unprecedented tree in front of me

Standing spreading its twigs

Its leaves are already faded

 Turned into red, 

Nature’s flow into me, like sunshine in the trees 

Autumn has come !

A Parrot’s group sitting on its different branch

Green Parrots & Red leaves are in harmony

It is more than a tree for me

Autumn has come !

A Parrot’s group sitting on its different branch

Green Parrots & Red leaves are in harmony

It is more than a tree for me

Inexpressible Tempting me

Giving Beautiful Spa to eyes……

It is well known that, the leaves of tea  contain a high content of acid substances, thus if we have the tea immediately after meal, these substances will harden the proteins to make them in unavailable situation  to be digested as well as, having tea plays a role in the  inhibition of iron to be absorbed, the iron is the main element in the hemoglobin molecule structure.A lot of fibers found in fruits, and if we have the fruits after meal, this will cause our stomach to be bloated due to the hi

I was eating one of my favourite fruits, persimmons, when it struck me that Malaysians always giving weird names to things/fruits/vegetables. The thing is that, those names didn't reflect anything about those things/fruits/vegetables that they want to describe. In here, I want to share with all of you some of those weird names that we are giving to normal things/fruits/vegetables.

1. Persimmons

Persimmons is also known as the 'fruits of God'. In Malay, we call it 'pisang kaki'. 'Pisang' means bana

expectorsmither

Meaning: a blog or blogger 

Example sentences:

1. Try to write more expectorsmithers to sharpen your writing skills. 

2. Expectorsmithers should be creative - don't try to copy things from the Internet. 

Oringin: Expector Smith is the blog moderator on MyEC. He's not really an English teacher or a native English speaker, though. He loves English so much that he's been a volunteer mod with MyEC for such a long time. He's been trying to write more blogs, and read blogs by other members

Erwinism

Meaning: An ism with an ability to determine what to do in the context of useful things.

For example:

1. When Krishna is faced with some activities where he has to choice one of them. He thinks, and finds Erwinism in his mind. In the result, he knows what he to do.
2. There are many peoples that doing activity, but they do not do some useful things. In the contrary, Andrew has an Erwinisme principle in his life.

Origin:

Erwin Dwi Putra is an undergraduate in one of the private universities in Indon

When I was a student of senior high school, I often went to my friend’s house after school. Going to her house, I would go across a small and short bridge. It is a paved road and its shape is like a small hill. So, before I got onto the bridge, I couldn't see anything in front of me.

I liked to bring my music player to school since I was fond of music. At that time, I still used walkman and cassette. I listened to music when break time. But, several times I saw that there were my friends who were

Everyone, without exception, has their own dream profession. Some people are lucky enough to fulfill their dreams but some are not that lucky. When I was a child I always wanted to be a football player but that never happened due to some problems concerning my family. I had the chance but instead of taking it I had to choose a different path which led me where I am now. Do not misunderstand, I am very happy with the way I am now. I studied English Literature which I think was awesome. I got the

L u c i c t o p u s

Meaning: BrE, AmE [lutsiktəpəs] Prounounciation

Example:

1. If a partner of the lucictopus woman doesn't appreciate her, he will be treated very badly.

2. Once you reach a lucictopus state, your life will turn upside down.

Origin: Luci is a mom of two little kids, who is busy almost 24/7. Since she lives on her own, she must usually

My Eponym = mistory

Meaning: Plot of a story suddenly comes, which you immediately write and wish to share with your readers.

For example:

1. I let my friends know the plot of ‘mistory’ via social media, the immediate response I received, “publish it at once ‘dude!”

2. The best ‘mistories’  come to me when my heart feels gloom and miss something/someone.

Origin: mishaikh (mi sheikh) is a Pakistani, student (in the sense of a learner) and an humble blogger on EC  who always tries to pick the knowled

Writing Challenge ~ My Eponym

My Eponym

danbritanisation

Meaning: the aptitude to feel familiar with the British accent even when you're not a native speaker.

For example:

1. Even though Rob was born and lived many years in Brazil, he always felt a danbritanisation, when talking to your English father;

2. Mary travelled the world in search of a special boyfriend, who is an authentic Londoner. Now, she's struggling to develop her danbritanisation.

Origin: Daniel is a self-taught English student, blogge

We have a new vocabulary reference section on EnglishClub:Eponyms. An eponym is a word (usually a noun) that comes from a person's name. The person may be real or fictional/mythological.

Many English words are eponyms. You probably know some of them, such as atlas, braille, and cardigan. This month, we're going to invent words based on our own names! Please join me in the fun. 

Your Task 

1. Review a few of the eponyms in EnglishClub's list. 

2. Think of something YOU are known for or are good at. D

i think websites like Facebook and Twitter
it's damage our lifes
and many other websites
from this kind
we should stop
think when i want to know
some new people
add them on face
chat with them instead of phone or meet them
have fun by meeting them
and go out

if we still like that, we shouldn't blame any other one 

Just ourselves 

Although it contains many advantages, don't deny this  

Didn't like yesterday's disappointed ,today I get so much new knowlage.It include the culturre different between East and West.I also realized that lots of phrases I used before is Chinglish,not English.The expression may confused the audience.

The first lesson today is writing,learned the skills how to make note or leave message to others.(add more later)

Thanks Arif, Anah, Mishaikh, Humza and others who commented on my last blog with emotions, distorted factual comments and Arif with logic and reasoning. It has inspired me to write the next blog in the sequence of Pakistan's ideology as a nation. 

Arif, rightly said that Jinnah was a secular initially (which India is today), but wrong circumstances (as Jinnah perceived) made him communal and a hard line Muslim politician i.e not by will but because of Hindu domination he chose to convert into a m

Joe’s Papa

Everybody at home was very happy and overjoyed when Joe was born. We loved caring him, whenever he used to cry we rush sensing the reason, played, laughed & smiled with him, never left him alone. He had become everyone’s darling I and Mary were doing private jobs. I was doing night shift job, so mary & my parents took the charge of looking after Joe in day and at night time. He missed me more often till he turned 2+, slept all his childhood nights with mommy and grandparents. Luckily,

Father’s Death

The moment I took that horrible great jump , I deployed death to swallow my father. Death, the giant black cobra, swallowed him secretly but slowly , bit by bit.

The pain that was printed on his sad ashen face while he was being swallowed finally , was the result of my heartlessness ?
My irresponsibility?
Or his own guilty feeling of being irresponsible ?
I slowly walked away while he was being swallowed. I went to my room. I sat silently and felt nothing. I wanted to cry but fou

What you call loving to your children and family ?

What you call if a man have just space in his heart for his family ? not another woman ! not another love! 

Not anyone come to his heart … even if his wife is sick , even if she cant do the sexual relationship and even simplest thing in the life , or emotion relationship !

What you call if a woman has a ill husband and endure his situation .. take him of the ground and take him to the bathroom and wash him … even he lose his tongue ! 

How can the Hu

Today marks the 4^th anniversary of the March 11th,  2011 Tōhoku earthquake.  On this day in 2011 the strongest recorded earthquake to ever hit Japan struck off the coast near Sendai, Japan.

All over Japan people will honor those who died in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.  Today at 2:46 PM  local time we will all pause for prayer or reflection on the losses suffered on that day 4 years ago.  It makes me very sad to think of the deaths and injuries that happened that March afternoon.  More

I was tagged by the younger bro Tayzar on first week. He wants me to write about my secret habits.
I don't know well how to write something in english. I wish I did.
I've been trying to learn english for year but I haven't succeeded it yet.
I have arrived at the condition of learning that I need to take some moe english courses. May I ask you for your some advice.
1. Every night, I believe someone thinks about me before they go to their beds.
2. I always get up late. I never get up early.
3. I had bee