MEET VS. SEE

Some people say “I met my friend yesterday” or “I’m going to meet my friend again today.” This is WRONG.
MEET as a verb means to see someone for the very first time you are introduced to them. So, in greetings you say “Nice to meet you” when you are first introduced to someone. Then when you see that person again in another time, don’t say “Nice to meet you again”, but say “Nice to see you again” or “It’s nice seeing you.”
INCORRECT: I met my friend yesterday.
CORRECT    : I saw my friend yesterday.
INCORRECT: I’m going to meet my friend again today.
CORRECT    : I’m going to see my friend again today.
However, in this sentence “Let’s meet for lunch at the new pizza joint across the street” is correct. The verb MEET in that sentence means to come together or have an appoinment with someone.
More examples:
• We agreed to meet on Friday after school.
• The President met the UK prime minister in London yesterday.
• He met his wife when he lived in Jakarta.

Adding -ed or -ing to a verb

We normally add -ing to a verb to form its present participle, and -ed to to form its regular simple past. When doing this, we sometimes double the last letter of the verb, as in these examples:

• refer ⇒ referred, referring

refered

refering

• stop ⇒ stopped, stopping

stoped

stoping

Sometimes, we don’t double the last letter, as with the verb visit:

• visit ⇒ visited, visiting

visitted

visitting

So when can we double a consonant before -ed or -ing to a verb exactly? Take a look at the table below:

When to double a consonant before adding –ed and –ing to a verb
We double the final letter when a one-syllable verb ends inconsonant + vowel + consonant.*	stop, rob, sit	stopping, stopped, robbing, robbed, sitting
We double the final letter when a word has more than one syllable, and when the final syllable is stressed in speech.	beGIN, preFER	beginning, preferring, preferred
If the final syllable is notstressed, we do not double the final letter.	LISten, HAPpen	listening, listened, happening, happened

*Exceptions:

• We do not double the final letter when a word ends in two consonants:
start – starting, started; burn – burn, burned.

• We do not double the final letter when two vowels come directly before it:
remain – remaining, remained.

• We do not double w or y at the end of words:
play – playing, played; snow – snowing, snowed.

@#$%&!! — Arrgghhhh! What is that??

What do you call the typographical symbols used in the picture?

“@#$%&! Arrrrggghhh!”

We called these symbols #$%& as GRAWLIX. A grawlixis a sequence of typographical symbols used to represent a non-specific, profane word or phrase.

Grawlix is used in comics or cartoons to indicate swear words or vulgar words. So now, if you want to use swear words on someone without them knowing it, you might want to try grawlix. I bet this must be fun!