Sunday, February 25, 2007
i was reading the english handouts just now when i came across an article which criticizes the use of
BIG BOMBASTIC WORDS. can anyone tell me what "
let your EXTEMPORANEOUS DESCANTINGS and UNPREMEDITATED EXPATIATIONS have INTELLIGIBILITY and VERACIOUS VIVACITY, without RODOMONTADE or THRASONICAL BOMBAST. SEDULOUSLY avoid all POLYSYLLABIC PROFUNDITY, POMPOUS PROLIXITY, PSITTACEOUS VACUITY, VENTRILOQUIAL VERBOSITY, and VANILOQUENT VAPIDITY. Shun DOULE-ENTENDRES, PRURIENT JOCOSITY, and PESTIFEROUS PROFANITY, OBSCURANT or APPARENT." MEANS? this example given seemed so Greek to me. according to the journalist, it is part of business-writing. WOA. O.O the journalist was also shooting at TTDurai for using ponderous substitutes which misled someone less educated. ADULTS. -.o
big words always give impressions of profundity. but sometimes sentences too big makes readers lose interest, just like the bold one above. ahaha.
there were different kinds of model essays in the handouts. i like Jeffrey Archer's "false impressions". it was action-packed and movie-liked. i inspire to write something like that tml. all the suspense and sadistic kinda action scenes. the primary school kinda compositions are boring but i was told that Cambridge markers actually like them. DANG.knock my head on the wall mann.
i write better for narratives and need more practice on expository. those factual essays are too factual and it's like answering social studies SEQ. but come to think of it, expository are more realistic and useful in JC. i have to take more risks in writing!
it's so sad that i do not have as much chinese handouts as the english ones. i do not have the compo guides too. haiz. im desperate to score in chinese! I MUST DO WELL FOR OLVLS HCL. or i wld have wasted all my time on hcl... gwarr.. well, i hope i can write something good tml for HCL compo too.
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