Dear members,
It is really interesting to me that I could not find the word self-adjusted in famous dictionaries but if you simply google this word you will face with about 172,000,000 results while well-adjusted has a meaning in most English references, but has only about 8,390,000 result on google.
This shows people use the latter one less. Is this right?
‘Well-adjusted’ can be used in one sense to refer to a person - their personality, traits, temperament, etc. Is that what you are referring to here?
‘Self-adjusted’ doesn’t mean anything like that, which might explain why you cannot find it. The only meaning for ‘self-adjusted’ would be if you had an item which needed to be adjusted and you did it yourself rather than took it to a company for the adjustments to be made.
Both have different meanings. ‘Self-adjust’/‘self-adjustment’ means ‘adjust oneself or itself as to the environment’ or ‘adjustment to oneself or one’s environment’. This usage is common. (Don’t be misled by
though it may also be possible. I wonder why couldn’t find the meaning of ‘self-adjust’ when googled. There are numerous results.
Well-adjusted & Self-adjusted #2 (permalink) Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:07 am Well-adjusted & Self-adjusted Post Reply Reply with quote
‘Well-adjusted’ can be used in one sense to refer to a person - their personality, traits, temperament, etc. Is that what you are referring to here?
Yes, exactly this the meaning I meant.
He said he couldn’t find it in a recognised dictionary, not when he Googled.
This is because it’s been made up and doesn’t actually have a recognised definition of the type you have given.
Then only ‘well-adjusted’ is correct.
Swan, you could see ‘self-adjust’/‘self adjustment’ in famous and reliable online dictionaries like www.merriam-webster.com etc. As you may have seen, many words prefixed with ‘self’ are available in the hard copies of Oxford, Chambers and Webster. This may find a place in their future editions if not added yet. But meanwhile, you can certainly rely on the usage recognized and inserted in the above-mentioned online dictionaries.
You don’t seem to have any understanding of how this term is used.
As I pointed out in message #2, the term exists, but only with the definition of being able to adjust something yourself (as opposed to an ‘expert’ having to do itor of machinery able to adjust itself rather than a person doing it.) Therefore by a stretch it is possible to use ‘self adjusted’ when talking in those terms.
If you wish to persist with your given definition please provide a credible link to the word being used in that context.
OED - ‘self-adjusted’ not found. Links back to ‘self-adjustment’ and ‘self-adjust’ as the nearest links found. The definition is as I have indicated.
Harper Collins - Sorry, no results for “self-adjusted” in the English Dictionary. Nearest term it can find is ‘self-adjustment’. The definition is as I have indicated.
Merriam Webster - The word you’ve entered isn’t in the dictionary. This dictionary doesn’t recognise ‘self-adjust’ or ‘self-adjusting’ either.
I say, what is the problem with you? I never asked Swan to take that word as the correct answer since he clearly stated in reply to your question that it was the context (well-adjusted) that he had meant.
I only wanted him to understand that ‘self-adjusted’ is a common word with the meanings I suggested and that it can be found in online dictionaries quoted.
It is clear that you are unnecessarily interfering in conversations I specifically initiate with others individually. You don’t have to speak for others. And you needn’t try to read their minds the way you like.
When more than 400,000 members on this forum can understand what I write and communicate, why can’t you? You are either hopelessly pretentious or incredibly ignorant. Please get lost without spoiling a good year for which I have solicited your cooperation right from the beginning.
Now stop looking at things through your prejudiced, blurred eyes, if you can! Else, be OFF from me. Have the last laugh and have a good night for Heaven’s sake!
What is the matter with you?
How can I be interfering in a conversation in which I responded first? (Especially as in your first message in the thread you accused me of misleading someone.)
If you remove your prejudices you might notice that I didn’t make any presumptions - I asked for clarification. Perhaps your own clairvoyant ability has deserted you?
The word does not carry your definition. You said, ‘adjust oneself or itself as to the environment’. That is only the case with “itself” and not with “oneself”.
I might describe my watch as being ‘self-adjusting’. I would never describe a person as being ‘self-adjusting’. Neither would any other English first-language speaker with any capability.
Why can’t you just accept that sometimes you do not get it right without making such a song and dance and starting that name-calling nonsense?
If you just cannot understand the wide application of ‘oneself’, stop your stupidity and go to bed but after visiting the links I quoted!
If you cannot understand that I was quoting from the links you posted, having visited them, there really is no hope.
It seems you don’t understand Time Zones either, or the offer of letting one (i.e. a person) have the last word two messages back. Did I hit a nerve?
Hello, Swan,
Thats curious. Do you Google self-ajusted and had 172,000,000, which part of the Globe are you from? Maybe Google works differently. When I do it from Russia top lines dont include my search at all, they include other words 1. Self-adjustment definition 2. self-adjusting and the total sum of results for self-ajusted (About 1,550,000 results (0.26 seconds)) for well-ajusted About 8,090,000 results (0.43 seconds) approximately 8 times more. And while well ajusted are commonly used, self-ajusted are mostly in science like "Design of a self-adjusted jet impingement system for cooling of photovoltaic cells". So thats really interesting how Google search in different parts of the Globe.
Best regards
Bev,
I really think the time has come to stop this barrage of contumely, day after day. It does nothing to help our posters with their understanding of the English language
Alan
I agree, but there’s no point in telling me, I’m not the culprit.
Try looking honestly at the posts on their own merit to see where the contumely originates, instead of making assumptions.
OK I’ll say the same to Lawrence - Lawrence this barrage of contumely must stop.
I make no ‘assumptions’ as you say but would add that it takes two to tango.
Dears Ms Beeesneeees and Mr Anglophile,
As a poster here, I must confess that I am learning from both of you, and I think this forum needs both of you.
To tell you the truth it really makes me sad when I see this kind of quarrel between you, so please please calm down and lets improve this forum more powerful by mutual understanding.
Best Regards,
Amir
And a third to sit in judgement, no doubt.
My position has never changed and won’t change now:
if I see what I consider to be a misconception, I will say so;
if I am attacked, I will defend myself.
I don’t want confrontation, but don’t expect me to shy away from it when it is thrown at me.
Again in the same way as I make no
, I also make no
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What I do make is a wish that my site should be free from personal squabbles that are damaging its primary function - to explain some of the intricacies of the English Language.
Alan
Ah, good.
Then here’s to a more peaceful 2017.