档案2007年2月

当词变无意义或者更坏…

可以我们现在转移词 令人敬畏 对被误用的和被滥用的词废料堆? [标记]甚而令人敬畏的[/tag]手段任何或者是它喜欢一声基本的咕噜声或呻吟声音登记您的仅仅存在?

坦率地,我对听力是疲乏它。

“嘿, [标记]花花公子[/tag],伊朗开发了一个核弹并且毁坏了以色列?”

“令人敬畏!”

您能从这次假定,但令人毛骨悚然地有先见的交谈看词处理了对desensitive人民到事在他们附近。 如果一切是令人敬畏的,则没什么错误或坏。 可能我们可以退休 花花公子 当我们是在它时。

令人敬畏!

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何时是真相真相?

不,这不是比尔·克林顿的问题的变异关于意思的 . 相反,它是对学院奖的一个反应和它? ?赠送? ?Oscar ? ?在Al Gore的 不便的真相。

现在,那部影片的事项是全球性变暖,尽管媒介报告和Gorian宣布? ?有科学家divided.?? 在全球性变暖歇斯底里想要获利的那些人似乎说它被证明了; 其他科学家? ?那里言是没有真凭实据。

然而,这未停止戈尔或联合国(或就此而言,媒介一般) ? ?从宣告不可以有没有其他科学debate.??

故事全文”

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讨论: 发起于斥责抒情诗的词

到目前为止,我是不成功的在发现详述的所有网站或谈论被进口了入每天英国用法发起于的词[标记]斥责抒情诗[/tag],因此我打开此为讨论。

如果您知道任何如此词,词组、咕噜声或者呻吟,请使用评论作用在这个投稿让我们know.?? (脏话是好的,只要他们现在是受雇于英文社会的某一段并且不是种族地或种族地攻势,不要担心我减轻所有提议。)

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肢体语言

One of the overlooked aspects in oral English usage is the accompanying body language.?? I probably shouldn’t say “overlooked” but “undiscussed” or “unstudied.”?? Sometimes it’s as much how we say something as what we say that gets communicated, so not only should we work on improving our English usage but our body language as well.

Easier said than done, right?

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Sound-Alike Words

No, this is not a new category for my blog, but rather a common phenomenon in English. Two words can sound completely alike, and if we don’t use them frequently enough, we can confuse the two while writing.

Case in point:

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PC Police and English Usage

I have to agree with Charles Barkley, he of basketball fame and of the outspoken mouth, when he told Dan Patrick on his radio show that “the [tag]PC police[/tag] should be taken out back and shot.”

I agree, but who are these PC police?

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New Category: MorphedWords

Since I screwed up and used the NotWord morphed in my posting yesterday, I’ve created a new category wherein common and acceptable English words get bastardized into forms and meanings never originally intended.?? In short, to??employ a NotWord??(which has been now joined by new category), these words have been morphed.?? Hence the name for my new category: [tag]MorphedWords[/tag].

What was the first MorphedWord?

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MorphedWords: Put ‘Charisma’ on the List

There I go–I used a NotWord.?? I don’t believe morph is a verb, though the dictionary folk may have added it.?? Naughty me.

The word I’m really writing about, however, is [tag]charisma[/tag], which is being bandied and thrown about a lot now that [tag]Barack Obama[/tag] is running for president.

What exactly does the word mean?

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Passive Voice Blues Redux

Check out my English Resources section for a fine article discussing not only the passive voice, but also the use of adjectives and adverbs.?? Our thanks to Paul Docherty for this useful resource.

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Passive Voice Blues

In the English classes I’ve taught, and there have been many of them over the years, students have generally struggled over the English usage of [tag]the passive voice[/tag].?? If, say, I write an active sentence on the board and ask the class to turn it into the passive voice, what I’ll usually get is a past tense sentence.

For instance, change this to passive:?? “I??eat hamburgers??everyday.”

What’s your solution?

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