Subject: RE: Justice to J.D.
From: horanp (horanp@kenyon.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 07:33:20 GMT
But oh, dear zazie, when you finally do feel, really FEEL the English
language, it will be a cosmic blast to the moon and back on gossamer wings.
Like fireworks in your craw, our gorgeous language will burst forth and bloom
as a thousand spring tulips (and you may never go back).
Incidentally, though my education of it may not be on the European caliber, I
had every intention to learn another language when I began college, and right
now I'm one-third of the way finished with taking "Intensive Study of Italian"
at my school. But, as with you, it will take many many more years before I
can speak Italian with any sort of style and panache rather than just saying
"I like peas. Will you pass me peas? Thanks for the peas!"
Peasy Pete.
>===== Original Message From bananafish@roughdraft.org =====
>This proves to me my theory about my English: I speak it, understand it,
>but i don't FEEL it, especially with synonyms or near-synonyms like that.
>Have any of you a similar experience? I realize that, you all being
>Englishers, with little or no incentive to speak another language,
>certainly not the life-long exposure that the small-country-Europeans have,
>this question might be in vain.
>"Fancy" is British colloquial speech i guess.
>Cognotively it means to me, 'like in a love-sex-agape-eros way,
>whereas i would use 'like' equally in regard to apples, movies and people
>of the opposite sex.
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>Message-ID: <20413125.992425982816.JavaMail.imail@batty.excite.com>
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
>From: joyce morrison <incurablejoyce@excite.com>
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: RE: Justice to J.D.
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>"fancy" comes to me as, well, a superficial term. sounds witty, compared to
>the overratedness of "like", but still superficial. "like" is more
>honest--unless, ofcourse, you really mean the opposite.
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>On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:41:38 -0400, bananafish@roughdraft.org wrote:
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>> Boy am *I* out of the loop on this one.
>>
>> Does anyone else like it when people say "fancy" instead of "like" or
>> whatever else may apply?
>>
>> Pete the Amateur.
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