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by: henh...@gmail.com - Tue, 6 Sep 2022 02:08 UTC

>>> Any easy mnemonic to recall complimentary vs complementary?

For 40+ years i've been confused by Ostensively vs. Ostensibly

so i 've long given up... (trying to use them correctly)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38599/difference-in-usage-between-ostensive-and-ostensible

>>> As far as I can tell, the only nuance (diff.) between ostensible and ostensive is that ostensible means evident or apparent, sometimes pretended (externally), ostensive has a slight lean toward certain (internally).

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by: bozo de niro - Tue, 6 Sep 2022 17:41 UTC

On Monday, September 5, 2022 at 7:08:07 PM UTC-7, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> Any easy mnemonic to recall complimentary vs complementary?
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> For 40+ years i've been confused by Ostensively vs. Ostensibly
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> so i 've long given up... (trying to use them correctly)
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> https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38599/difference-in-usage-bVetween-ostensive-and-ostensible
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> >>> As far as I can tell, the only nuance (diff.) between ostensible and ostensive is that ostensible means evident or apparent, sometimes pretended (externally), ostensive has a slight lean toward certain (internally).

perhaps more likely though the "v" , "b" , and "w" are internal interchangeable phonetic expressions in both English and German

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by: occam - Wed, 7 Sep 2022 11:26 UTC

On 06/09/2022 04:08, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Any easy mnemonic to recall complimentary vs complementary?
>
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> For 40+ years i've been confused by ...

What! You are over 40 years old? Funny! Your writing style and thought
processes suggests that you are not a day over 15.

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For 40+ years i've been confused by Ostensively vs.	henh...@gmail.com
Re: For 40+ years i've been confused by Ostensively vs. Ostensibly ...	bozo de niro
Re: For 40+ years i've been confused by Ostensively vs. Ostensibly	occam