Oh language-19

 Oh language-19

Before, beginning the present episode, I deem it fit to recall a response that came through WA, in connection with the previous posting on words with the prefix ‘mis’. The response reads as under:

Food for thought

We have been using these words correctly, but without any thought to the connotations associated with them.     Sujatha Sakthivel

Thank you mam for your response- K. Raman

Now on to the day’s presentation:

Discourage [Encourage], Disinformation, Disparity, Disprove, Disuse, Dispassionate, Dispossess, Dissatisfy Disservice.

Discourage suggests preventing or attempts of preventing someone from doing something by ‘cautioning’ against undesirable outcome. So, it is the opposite of ‘encourage’. It is [to discourage] also expressed as ‘Dissuade’ as opposed to ‘Persuade’. Generally ‘dissuade’ implies advancing strong reasons to ‘give up’ or ‘alter’ some idea.

Disinformation is the spreading of   or propagation of wrong information with the intention of misleading. It differs from ‘misinformation’ which is unintentional conveying of wrong information without any malicious intention.

Disparity refers to ‘difference’ between two especially by unfair measures /treatment.

Disprove means the act of ‘proving’ or ‘establishing’ that something is wrong or untrue.

‘Disuse’ refers to a state of something, ‘not being used’. Several buildings –School/Church/Post office in Dhanushkodi are in ‘disuse’       [shattered by massive cyclone in 1964]. But, ‘Misuse’ implies inappropriate use of something. Often un-inhabited ruins are used by miscreants for their clandestine activities, whereas ‘abuse’ means making ‘dishonest’ or bad use of some facility. 

Dispassionate means ‘not influenced by emotions –of ‘like and dislike’. So [s]he stays detached and neutral [impartial].

‘Dispossess’ means to ‘remove’ takeaway a piece of land or a building from someone. Some landlords dispossess their labourers of their dwellings because the latter misuse the premises by sub-lending.

‘Dissatisfy’ refers to a state of ‘failure’ to satisfy. It means that some item or an act failed to live up to expectation.

‘Disservice’ implies that an action or function has caused harm to someone or to some event. ‘No service’ is better than “disservice”

I believe-these are intelligible.

To  Continue ……. 

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