Author: JulioSueco
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Yet more exciting information at hand from the Lexicography dept: Dictionaries: Collins English Dictionary Fourth Edition updated 2000 according to the blurb: 21st Century Edition The New Britannica-Webster Dictionary and Reference Guide 1981 The query at hand: Compare the macrostructure of the two dictionaries: “A dictionary’s macrostructure refers to what constitutes an entry in a…
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Further jolly good fun from the folks at the lexicography Dept. The dictionaries chosen at will: Collins English Dictionary Fourth Edition updated 2000. According to the blurb: 21st Century Edition and The New Britannica-Webster Dictionary and Reference Guide 1981 The query at hand: Compare the prefaces of said dictionaries: The dictionaries in question do not…
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I was recently told to compare the microstructure of two dictionaries in my very exciting lexicography class which makes me question WHY is it that I like lexicography so much, specially etymology. The dictionaries chosen at will: Collins English Dictionary Fourth Edition updated 2000. According to the blurb: 21st Century Edition and The New Britannica-Webster…
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My thoughts on the USA of 2003
I believe in the USA and its constitution. It has helped many people and probably will continue to do so. But right now there is a group of people who have hijacked this ideal and turned it into a venture for their own enterprises. This sector is bound to foster conflict because they are in…
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Experimental Writing
There was only that one chance. The crowds were thick enough to create a diversion and grab it. The moneybag lay idle in the counter, so it would be enough for a fire alarm to cause a small panic, stretch the arm, grab the dough and make a run for the door. The only obstacle…
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Patrick White: Flaws in the Glass (first 155 pages.)
Linguistics is one of those fields that have no real use for those of us who are natives to the language in question since much of it is already ingrained. It only becomes a useful tool when studying a foreign tongue. Reading Patrick White has given me the opportunity to put into use these tools…
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Last night I dreamt I held in my hand an apple sized kiwi. I looked at it in bewilderment as I knew it to be a hybrid. I went about to set my teeth to it so as to indulge in it. I hazily lived this dream through patches of foggy scenes and much the…
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Fiction is the idea that we must invent worlds and that we must somehow demonstrate, for the sheer purpose of the readers sake, a sort of description without giving too much of what is being told. The idea is to allow for the reader to make up its mind of what he or she is…
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‘Voice’ is a hard subject. I feel I have no voice to which I can attach a determined form of writing. However, I do notice that my voice, when am writing, tends to be a melancholic one, a serious one and one that is reflective of what it is writing, As if the way I…
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I want to write something beautiful, I don’t know what but I hope that I’ll soon know. I believe I like writing because somehow I too want to depict scenes. The problem is that I don’t have much to say. However, I like words so much I spend a great deal of time reading them.…
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I don’t know what is it about the Swedish nature that somehow always seems to seep in my writing. Language reflects the environment it is said. Presumably my writing betrays this influence. What is it that appeals to me so much in this essence I seem to want to depict so bad? I mean, do…
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The trees had been planted by some immigrants at the time Alaska belonged to Mother Russia. They were not native to this soil but adapted themselves very well, spreading far and wide across the valley and even proclaimed a natural reserve not so long ago. It now attracts tourists from afar as Siberia and a…