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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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