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20 Feb 2016
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I said 'snakes are freaky', and an English native speaker mentioned, "Your sentence is correct, but it means 'snakes are scary."
I was trying to say that snakes are eerie.
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I said 'snakes are freaky', and an English native speaker mentioned, "Your sentence is correct, but it means 'snakes are scary."
I was trying to say that snakes are eerie.
How would you say if you want to say what I was trying to say?
I was trying to say that snakes are eerie.
How would you say if you want to say what I was trying to say?
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"Eerie" is something that like gives you the impression of something mysterious and supernatural. I would probably say something like "creepy" if you don't mean "scary".
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@Kuroshin ”creepy” would be what I was trying to say. Thank you. :)
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@Kuroshin Can I ask you one more question? There is a classmate who sometimes suddenly laughs by himself. How would you state about him? "My classmate is (freaky/eerie/creepy) because he suddenly laughs by himself."
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No prob. :)
If he randomly starts laughing, I'd call him "weird". Maybe "creepy" too.
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sounds perfectly fine to me. freaky is more similar to creepy than scary for me.
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there's also the word unsettling which works well
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