Main Entry: erudition [er-yoo-dish-uhn, er-oo-] Show IPA Part of Speech: noun Definition: higher education Synonyms: bookishness, brains, cultivation, culture, enlightenment, intellectuality, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy, lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarliness, scholarship, science, studiousness Antonyms: ignorance
I don’t know why I have to keep going over this same subject. “Erudition” (in the sense of “knowledge” and “higher education”) is precisely the word that should be used in my post. Look again at the list of definitions in your last post.
Here’s the post one more time:
“My point—and I do have one—is that many Freepers, with varying amounts of “erudition,” make this same error and it just puzzles me why they do.”
“Savvy” does not convey the meaning I had in mind.
Of course, I can understand BOOBOO’s post despite the misspelling. It’s just that I keep wondering why so many Freepers mistake “lose” and “loose.” These words, and a large number of other words that are spelled wrong, reflect badly on FR. They give the appearance of ignorance.
And why are you taking up his or her case? Why can’t he or she defend his or her case?