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Perfect Stranger Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Commit to memory and what collocates with creativity

Hello,

1) In this video:

(at 21:35) the camera tester says "and the camera took about 8 seconds to commit that to memory". Is that a common collocation?

2) What's the collocation that matches creativity if we want to say that something ruins one's creativity? To say that the weather ruins my creativity in photography doesn't sound that well to my ears. Perhaps spoil creativity?

Thanks

  

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1) This is unusual. Typically a person, not a machine, commits something to memory. 2) Typically, when you're describing your creativity, you'd use the adjective "creative" rather than the noun form.

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  • 1) This is unusual.
  • Typically a person, not a machine, commits something to memory.
  • 2) Typically, when you're describing your creativity, you'd use the adjective "creative" rather than the noun form.
  • For example: I can't be creative under rainy conditions.
  • I can't be creative under these conditions.
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1) This is unusual. Typically a person, not a machine, commits something to memory.


2) Typically, when you're describing your creativity, you'd use the adjective "creative" rather than the noun form. For example:


I can't be creative under rainy conditions.

I can't be creative under these conditions.

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Perfect Stranger2) What's the collocation that matches creativity if we want to say that something ruins one's creativity? To say that the weather ruins my creativity in photography doesn't sound that well to my ears. Perhaps spoil creativity?

"Ruin" is okay. Try also "impair".

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