Author: JulioSueco
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Fashionable Repugnancy Spring 2003
Oh! dear friend of mine now that the war is over & your moral qualms gone can we go second-hand shopping for discarded goods and old fashions to wear? There is a masquerade tonight it’s really no biggie we’ll just have to put up a charade nothing you haven’t done before can you do that…
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The aisle was carpeted with a carpet named Yielding Effects and the color was, according to an old catalog my mom had left behind, Oriental Jade. The walls bore paintings from the family’s efforts to inculcate their children artistic talent that only now stand there as testimony to their good intentions and their immense faith…
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Bilingual issues
Well, suffice to say my spanish blog has sucked a lot of time out of me and it’s because my blog community is so responsive to the text I write and I believe I have developed a sort of friedship with some of them. Well, after all they are from my native city and we…
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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…