Friday, January 30, 2009
You've got to be kidding me!
The first paragraph is the exact reason that classics scare me. It is one long sentence. It consist of 148 words,6 commas, and 2 semi colons. It is no wonder I have no idea what she just said. I guess I'll have to read that again. To do this properly I should be taking my time and looking up words I don't understand. The first one is decorum.
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decorum-n. polite behavior
sundry-adj. miscellaneous
vivacity-n. quality of being vivacious(lively)
All of these are words I have heard or used and did so properly but had no idea how to define them. I feel so much smarter than I did two days ago. Here's one of my favorite (partial) senctances in Ch.2..."no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child". Wow, to be able to command the engilsh language like that and convey your thoughts so completely and with so little words.
I love Matthew Cuthbert already, because he prefered for Anne to do all the talking. My kind of man. Ha. Ha.
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