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Post by bountyhunter9 on Mar 29, 2010 19:33:02 GMT -5
Lol. If only my teachers offered such perspicacious insight  |
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Post by Jm419 on Mar 29, 2010 21:25:24 GMT -5
Lol. Right. Good vocab word use there.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Mar 30, 2010 15:09:55 GMT -5
Lol. I had to look it up to double-check the spelling. But I learned how to pronounce it properly (per-spi-kay-shus, I thought it was per-spik-a-shus).
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Post by Jm419 on Mar 30, 2010 17:35:37 GMT -5
Ah. Yeah...lol. My favorite is anthropormorphize.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Mar 30, 2010 17:51:42 GMT -5
Lol. What does that mean?
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 2, 2010 20:22:46 GMT -5
Give human characteristics to something not human. For instance, "The chair was talking to me."
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 2, 2010 22:02:47 GMT -5
Huh. Interesting. Is that similar to personification?
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 3, 2010 19:06:31 GMT -5
Not really. Personification is more like imitating someone - or something.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 3, 2010 22:17:13 GMT -5
Huh. Interesting. Does onomatopoeia (or however you spell it) fit into this?
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 4, 2010 11:36:14 GMT -5
Onomatopeia is like saying, "Bang!" It's a word that sounds like exactly what it means; or another perspective is that it doesn't have a meaning; the meaning is the word.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 4, 2010 13:53:25 GMT -5
Interesting. Great English jargon.
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Post by Jm419 on Apr 19, 2010 17:45:17 GMT -5
Yeah. It's supposedly the hardest language to learn.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Apr 19, 2010 20:41:27 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard that too. I've never really learned another language to the point that I can speak it fluently, but I can understand French if the speaker is patient enough to slow down. But learning what I have of French was really a piece of cake compared to the intricacies of English. Supposedly, it's also easier to learn another language if English is your first language, because it is so difficult.
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Man