• Truck crash?

    From Dallas Hinton@1:153/7715 to All on Wed Aug 21 23:03:57 2019
    Hi All!

    A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralysed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.



    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Alexander Koryagin@2:221/6 to Dallas Hinton on Thu Aug 22 10:52:18 2019
    Hi, Dallas Hinton!
    I read your message from 21.08.2019 23:03

    A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus
    crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked,
    rattled, paralysed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed,
    confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless,
    and perplexed.

    I wonder, however, how to choose a word from the list. ;-) They also forgot about bamboozled, flummoxed, giddy, at sixes and sevens, discombobulated, dismayed, appalled, awe/thunderstruck, wordless, tongue-tied, inarticulate and, I suppose many others. It have given me an idea that there is something special in English culture concerning how often people have surprises. ;-)

    Bye, Dallas!
    Alexander Koryagin
    english_tutor 2019

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/7715 to Alexander Koryagin on Thu Aug 22 07:32:17 2019
    Hi Alexander -- on Aug 22 2019 at 10:52, you wrote:

    I wonder, however, how to choose a word from the list. ;-) They also
    forgot about bamboozled, flummoxed, giddy, at sixes and sevens, discombobulated, dismayed, appalled, awe/thunderstruck, wordless, tongue-tied, inarticulate and, I suppose many others. It have given
    me an idea that there is something special in English culture
    concerning how often people have surprises. ;-)

    :-)

    The choice of an exact word from a list of synonyms is a real challenge. We say that in English there are NO exact synonyms; every word has a shade of meaning that differs from any other word.

    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Anton Shepelev@2:221/6 to Dallas Hinton on Sat Aug 24 00:10:50 2019
    Dallas Hinton:

    A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's
    Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load.
    Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback,
    stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralysed, dazed,
    bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded,
    nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed,
    confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed,
    speechless, and perplexed.

    I wonder what would have happened if one of them had an
    adjective cellar like cousin Len's:


    http://www.robbinsskyward.com/omit-needless-words-cousin-lens-wonderful-adjecti ve-cellar/

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/7715 to Anton Shepelev on Fri Aug 23 20:30:32 2019
    Hi Anton -- on Aug 24 2019 at 00:10, you wrote:

    adjective cellar like cousin Len's:

    That's a wonderful link!!! Thanks!


    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Anton Shepelev@2:221/6 to Dallas Hinton on Sat Aug 24 12:56:02 2019
    Dallas Hinton about Jack Finney's
    "Cousing Len's wonderful adjective cellar":

    That's a wonderful link!!! Thanks!

    As is the whole story collection of his, "The Third Level."
    I have the 1956 edition, with pages yellow, but not
    crumbling.

    As to omitting needless adjectives, it is an obvious advice,
    for any needless thing should be discarded. The difficult
    part is telling which are needless...

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/7715 to Anton Shepelev on Sat Aug 24 12:13:26 2019
    Hi Anton -- on Aug 24 2019 at 12:56, you wrote:

    As to omitting needless adjectives, it is an obvious advice,
    for any needless thing should be discarded. The difficult
    part is telling which are needless...

    I once read a book on "how to do sculpture". It was very short. It said in effect, decide what you want to sculpt, then remove all the marble that isn't part of that sculpture. :-) Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Anton Shepelev@2:221/6 to Dallas Hinton on Sun Aug 25 12:50:22 2019
    Dallas Hinton:

    I once read a book on "how to do sculpture". It was very
    short. It said in effect, decide what you want to
    sculpt, then remove all the marble that isn't part of
    that sculpture. :-) Cheers... Dallas

    That's what I mean:
    One young man annoyed Brecht with a requst of advice: "I am
    full of creaitive desings. I can write a excellent novel...
    One circumstance, however, thwarts me -- I don't know how to
    begin."

    Brecht simpered: "Take a blank sheet of paper and begin as
    all do -- from the top-left corner."

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  • From Anton Shepelev@2:221/6 to Anton Shepelev on Sun Aug 25 12:59:24 2019
    I wrote:

    One young man annoyed Brecht with a requst of
    advice

    *for* advice.

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  • From Alexander Koryagin@2:221/6 to Anton Shepelev on Sun Aug 25 17:57:04 2019
    Hi, Anton Shepelev!
    I read your message from 25.08.2019 12:59

    One young man annoyed Brecht with a requst of
    advice

    *for* advice.

    and "write aN excellent novel"

    Bye, Anton!
    Alexander Koryagin
    english_tutor 2019

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