What’s the Difference Between Discourse vs. discourse? And What is Mushfaking?

There is a difference between discourse and Discourse. Though it may not seem too different to the human eye when you read that first sentence, there are significant meanings to both words that make them nonidentical. Discourse, with a capital D, is the kind of person you become depending on your surroundings. For example, if you’re hanging out with friends, you may seem more open and outgoing, maybe more willing to genuinely smile or even laugh. But if you’re in a work setting, where you’re trying to impress your boss or colleagues, you may appear more reserved and determined to get work done, maybe only smiling or laughing to suck up to the people you’re working with. All in all, as the setting changes, so does your persona. Now discourse, with a lowercase D, is how you communicate with other people. You can speak to them in person, through notes/letters, or even online. When hanging with friends, you perform discourse while in Discourse, or in other words, you communicate with your friends while being what you may consider your “true self.”  Now for another word, mushfaking. It sounds a bit confusing when you first hear it, but yes, it is a real word, and the definition is fairly simple. Mushfaking is pretending to be fluent in something, such as a language or task, when in reality, you’re not. An example for this could be putting on a job resume that you’re fluent in spanish, or maybe that you know how to use a certain computer program when you really don’t.