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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 3032210, member: 961"] Thank you for that. I was just complaining this week about a professional organization that put out a questionnaire that asked how Thing A complimented Thing B. I suggested we reply, "By saying thank you," but my co-workers would not go along, and I had to complete the document by pretending that it said "complemented." It's amazing the number of people to whom this means nothing, that any ol' thing will do, as long as the word kinda sorta looks right. Every word means something, and these two mean different things. It's like "uninterested" and "disinterested," among other non-pairs. Two completely different meanings and folks (including professional writers edited by professional editors) screw it up constantly. [/QUOTE]