Sincerely, Sawda

Before my exams my English teacher gave the class a list of words that are commonly mistaken when used. I was recently having a clean out and stumbled across the list and thought "Hey, this is actually quite useful" ,*1 and so I thought it was worth sharing. Affect/effect, they're/there/their / your/you're : These are probably the most mistaken words, which in can proudly say that I'm able to distinguish between.  Affect/effect for example is commonly confused. ' Affect ' being a verb  can be replaced with another verb and still have the sentence make (partial) sense . And so, if you are unsure as to which one to use, replace it with a verb and see if the sentence makes sense. I personally use 'play' in times of doubt. Eg; the movie affected her / the movie played her. If a movie could play with something then the  sentence would make some sense. ' Effect' on the other hand is the aftermath or result of something. So when ...

The most difficult thing about starting up this blog was the blog title itself, because blog titles are meant to be representative of your blog, and I had no* 1 idea how I was supposed to do that in a blog title. One thing I did know was my blog was going to be personal, which meant that the blog name had to reflect me in some sort of way. "Simple", I thought to myself * 2 . All I had to do was describe myself, make it look like a title, and I'm set. But it wasn't simple, because I didn't know how to describe myself. I find it awkward, and not easy to tell people what you are. Besides from the facts, like being female, Nigerian, Muslim, I couldn't find a selling point for myself.  So I went to a few friends and asked them to describe me: in a few words, three words,or one word. I got good words, such as 'smart', which is great to be described as, but to put that in a blog title wouldn't be good enough. I also thought intelligence is relative...