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...very different than the way we think people talk. When you're watching a TV show like Friends, the dialogue from the script is nothing like the way people actually talk to one another - random and full of non-sequiturs. OHinNY tries to capture authentic speech, diction and syntax, making it a fun, living record of how people talk. Imagine if OHinNY existed in 1906... The blog is an interesting contribution to an archive of what life is like today, as well as a re-creation of what it's like to walk down the street in New York. There...
...language students by gutting study abroad. I remember an Arabic course taught by Harvard’s William Granara as one of the best I ever took, but surely Adomanis recognizes the incomparable advantage of studying modern languages in their natural context. Immersed students not only acquire vocabulary and syntax more rapidly, they spark human curiosity, exchange, and understanding with people previously ignored, and that is precisely the purpose of education. Study abroad can be improved by more integration with host schools, home-stays, and increased funding. Such expansion and improvement, not the degradation of international education, is precisely what...
...makes them entirely relatable to the college audience; Jane and Elizabeth’s bedtime talk about Jane’s coy flirtation with Mr. Bingley is exactly of the same tone as the conversations my roommate and I share from top and bottom bunk, albeit with slightly different syntax. Anyone who missed the reading for Reid Professor of English and American Literature Phillip J. Fisher’s English 157, “The Classic Phase of the Novel,” can skip the SparkNotes and use this film as a reliable source. In his gorgeous tableau, Wright...
...High-stakes battles over corruption and development rage on without him. As in A Guest of Honour, The House Gun and most of her 11 other novels, Gordimer weaves together big national issues and small personal crises. Yet this time she also uses local vocabularies, incomplete sentences and elliptical syntax that some readers may find annoying (helpfully, she appends a glossary of indigenous language terms). Get used to it. Among the blessings of apartheid's fall is a new willingness among South African writers to experiment, get funky and abandon worthy subjects altogether. That seems to be what J.M. Coetzee...
...diction. The poem’s narrator babbles out initial exposition in a long stanza, then pauses, takes a breath, and recaps in a single line: “There is a note in my pocket.” In this and other poems, Robinson’s syntax is the best part of her style. The pacing of her language is exquisite. Lines that are formal and decorously slow contrast with punctuation-less lines that rush into one another. Robinson can sustain the tension of a phrase over several lines, even through self-interruption. In “From...