If you think you feel just like another person, you are feeling empathy. If you just feel sorry for another person, you’re feeling sympathy.
Sometimes people say they “emphasize” with someone when they mean they “empathize” with him or her.
This is the tenth year of the Common Errors in English Usage calendar. To celebrate, we are bringing back some of our favorite interesting, funny, but sometimes merely silly entries through the years before going on hiatus in 2016.
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