{"id":1563,"date":"2018-09-06T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2021-12-30T07:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T07:22:50","slug":"complete-vs-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/complete-vs-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between Complete vs Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complete and Finish, they are the same right? Think about it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The race is completed vs The race is finished<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The game is completed vs The game is finished<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The lesson is completed vs The lesson is finished<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no difference at all! Both of them also mean conclude and ended. Whether using \u201ccomplete\u201d or \u201cfinish\u201d, the meaning look like the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">But is that true? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, there is huge difference between them!<\/p>\n<p>In a linguistic conference, held in London, England, in 2012, Samsunder Balgobin, one of the best linguists, was asked by the audience that is there a difference between \u201ccomplete\u201d and \u201cfinish\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Yes, there is a huge difference between two of them,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When you marry the right woman, you are <strong>COMPLETED<\/strong>;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When you marry the wrong woman, you are <strong>FINISHED<\/strong>;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are <strong>COMPLETELY FINISHED<\/strong>!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WOW! Huge difference! Samsunder Balgobin even received a five-minute standing ovation for his amazing answer.<\/p>\n<p>But how the two words that we all thought to have the same meaning give completely different meaning to the sentence. The secret behind is CONTEXT.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/breath-vs-breathe\/\">Breath vs Breathe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about context,\u00a0check <a href=\"link: https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id690557567\">LingoCards<\/a> every day. Remember, context is key and the upcoming article would discuss the importance of context!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete and Finish, they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,430],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-what-is-the-difference-between-confusing-words-comparisons-explanations","tag-confusing-words","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}