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In one way or another,
life goes on. Whether we agree to how it goes on or not, it will – for us too, for
as long as we live.
As I said in a post from
two weeks ago, a blogger’s life is not easy. It takes long hours of dedication
to obtain the desired effect, sort out materials, make them be conclusive of
the idea you want to get through to your readers, and – after all – expect
them, your readers, to appreciate the posts and say so!
I once had a student who
smiled when she answered my query:
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Of course I do! ~
Then why don’t you
comment on them? ~
Because...I don’t know
what to say. Would you like me to say ‘oh, how nice, very interesting,’ and
then what? ~
It’s not about that;
that would be detaching yourself from the topic. The point is that you should take
the idea further, and add something of your own – if it made you think, or feel
something like taking a stance; participate, get involved, don’t remain on the
sideline (or sit on the fence, as
they say), a spectator in a crowd.
She shrugged in a kind
of inescapable unhelpfulness.
So winds of change are
carrying me towards a different arrangement, exactly the one mentioned in the
heading. It was inspired by the very article that initiated this blog: the myth
of the easy way out as regards expression.
No way! Why not?
Well, because there are
no two utterances which mean the same thing; there are no two words which are one
hundred percent synonymous in the same context. Paraphrasing turns out to be one of the best ways of conveying the
same idea in other words. Lexicogrammar is still the in thing when you learn a language.
There is every reason to make your
expression sound English, so feel free to ask about whatever you wanted to
know and didn’t dare up till now: when there’s a will, there’s a way!
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I like the expression "When there's a will, there's a way", well said!
ReplyDeleteNow I'm discovering ideas, words and sentences that I've never seen before, or perhaps I've never noticed before, and I like them because sound good. It's courious because sometimes I learn a new one and I listen several times next days, casually.
Well, congratulations for a new start, I think we all will make the best we can.
Hello everybody,
ReplyDeleteI identify with Mercedes. Similar things have happened to me when I learn, for example, a new idiom or proverb I didn‘t know. Then when you are watching your favourite sitcom, and it appear by chance, you realize that you can understand the situation just because you knew the expression, even if they are speaking extremely fast. I think, we often find listenings so hard just because we don’t know the vocabulary involved.