And Now in Spanish
Having finished Mina Shaughnessy's _Errors and Expectations_ (1977),
I'd probably have my 13 year-old daughter
look up the following fun/useful
terms I found in Shaughnessy's work:
ubiquitous
fulcrum
provincialism
nominalize
obfuscate
abrogation
mercurial
palimpsest
acuity
kinesthetic
haptical
obfuscate
acculturation
belletristic
viscosity
sophomoric
aplomb
prolixity
incipient
What's good for me is good for her, yeah?
Just wondering how she might meet the challenge to
include as many of these words in one single sentence
that she possibly could . . .
Ack. Snarf snarf. I know she'd be a math/science geek.
7 Comments:
I need to get my dictionary out....
wikipedia, baby...
How's it goin' O Squirrley One? I'm still lovin' the Bush Meat.
See, I'm an english geek...no math for me, thanks.
Ubiquitous is one of my favorite words... I'd have to dig out the dictionary for some of the others. Thanks for the comments on my pics, sounds like you'd enjoy (or enjoy) canyon hiking.
And what, pray tell, is wrong with being a math/science geek?!?
;-)
eschew... that's how you eat escargot, right?
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