Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.


Talking from experience: having flung myself into chatting on the Internet I got so preoccupied with composing emails and messages, posting on forums, writing snail-mail letters, meeting people of different cultural background that now I really feel exhausted.

 

All I wish now is to fling all those unfinished letters into fire and to get flung out of all those social nets that were initially designed for dating. ('Dirty business!' she flung her hands up in disgust watching the pictures of young girls ready to get flung off their last clothes to make anyone fling himself at them.)

 

On one of my favourite forums I came across an aged man with so poor manners that I could hardly endure. We flung bitter accusations at each other and I had to reduce my posting there to a couple of threads only, yet now he is flinging me out quite vigorously. I don't have the nerve to stay there...

 

Well, I consider all that as the last fling before starting a new term :) Obviously it has brought in some worthy experience and knowledge, anyway I am happy it's all over, and now I can do things I am really into :)

 

ps. I enjoyed talking to some decent people, luckly they are very few, so I am almost sure I'll be able to handle it in future :)

 

Phew, I hope I got it right :)


fling (flung) was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.


Avenue is intended to let everyone have a last fling, and all `leftover" rubbish brought from      
kitchen tables, freezers, cookers, desks or fling cabinets etc., will slide freely, without
of which he and his buddies break into just to fling themselves off the roofs. I know about him
am amazed at Stephanie Calman (Let him have his fling, February SHE). Can she really be so cold? I
baby-face was one of the lucky ones chosen to fling a bottle of Lenor to the next woman in an
my breast, motherfucker [p] He describes his fling with a pneumatic, pouting cartoon in Cool
from 28 exhibitors; should inspire a highland fling. Last year, a cabin chest reportedly owned by
we had spent together had been a meaningless fling - something to be enjoyed at the time and
was campaigning through the pages of Popular Fling for rearmament before World War Two not as
and the kicker is that it was only a short fling, and it was over months ago." He laughed, a
anything about these incidents at the time? Why fling them at Senna retrospectively? [p] Nor did
and pus-pocked arms that every evening would fling themselves around his neck, the sore-infested
snatched a banana from my hand: when I moved to fling a pebble at it, I was cursed at by a man in
because it is in decline. Before East Europeans fling their fags in the bin and join health clubs,
island, its central spine of mountains a last fling of the Andean chain. Legally protected since
grow in any kind of proximity they have a fling. [p] [p] In December you recommended
of night and neon. [p] A lesser director would fling his two stars together, like fighting cocks
Bennett, fair-shares-for-all bit was the last fling of the 1940s, the swan song of the short-
but here Daniele Gatti, enjoying perhaps a last fling with the LSO before becoming music director
eight d This game represented the final fling of what, by their standards, has been a
matches without that common desire to fling the machine out of the window. [p] Sound is
the controversy over the summer of her summer fling with financial advisor John Bryan. [p] The
stars Barbara Hershey as a defence lawyer whose fling with her client (J T Walsh) comes to a bloody
is also keen to see Villa's youth being given a fling after the success of teenager Graham Fenton
which is what counts [p] [h] Martina's final fling;Martina Navratilova;Tennis [/h] [p] MARTINA
everyone fall about with laughter: `Must we fling this filth at our pop kids [p] Whether it
returns to London. [p] [h] Major's son denies fling;James Major [/h] [p] PREMIER'S son James
Winners' Cup final could turn into a farewell fling for three of their semi-final heroes. [p]
[p] She told TODAY that the streak was a final fling before celebrating her 30th birthday next
be salvaged at appalling expense. And Costner's fling with a local hula-hula dancer last October
Chris, 44, begged forgiveness for his latest fling with ex-nanny Maresa Morgan, 20. [p] But
in which the arms emerge from the water and fling forward. He had copied the style from a
able to rip the viscous strands of that web and fling them behind him. As always he was honest with
His eyes moved wildly in his head, he tried to fling himself away from Bob, but he was caught in
This category includes the passionate two-night fling while attending an out-of-town national
vacationing together who have a brief sexual fling but quickly drop this practice when they
He will wad the blueprints into tight balls and fling them into the lake. Then he'll get moving
University School of Engineering's annual food fling try to fling a pumpkin from a 10-story
[p] dark like me [p] that is my dream [p] To fling my arms wide in the face of the sun [p]
end product yeah when they're just you could fling an experiment together and it could end up





@темы: emotions, English, creative writing, I, vocabulary

Комментарии
09.01.2010 в 13:38

Я дерево, мое место в саду (с)
Thanks for the idea of learning a word, I nearly forgot this method.
You've changed the design, very beautiful and much more readable:)
09.01.2010 в 14:05

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Thnx :)

Learning new words is the greatest problem for me now. It's not that I can't remember words :) just when I come across an absolutely new word I'd like to feel it, to try it on :) to make it familiar in the same sense as other words I know are :) It usually takes time, yet it's worth it, at least for me :)
Though, I fancy, the stories I've composed are not so interesting to read :pink:

How do you manage learning new words?
09.01.2010 в 22:03

Я дерево, мое место в саду (с)
Somehow it has never been a problem for me, I come across them, new words I mean, and remember them ever since. I still can say where and when I first saw this or that word or expression, not all of them surely but some are always kept in my mind with their original context.
10.01.2010 в 00:34

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
+ That's the most usual way to pick up new words :) through the context. At first it felt a bit unreal, now I get used to it)
The problem is when there's no context, just that very word together with some auxiliary which makes no sense, what's then?
10.01.2010 в 11:26

Я дерево, мое место в саду (с)
How come there is no context? The word came to you just from the clear sky? :)
10.01.2010 в 12:58

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
:) From the other part of the globe :)

It happens in conversations, in short phrases when the word in question bears the meaning) Especially in questions :shy: or when the partner brings in a new theme )
10.01.2010 в 13:22

Я дерево, мое место в саду (с)
Oh, I see. But it's not a matter of learning a word, its a matter of semantisation.
10.01.2010 в 14:40

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
:) Maybe :)

I mean knowing a word means not only knowing everything about the word (pronunciation, meaning/s, grammar pattern/s etc etc), but, which seems of more importance, obtaining some natural command of the world, that is using it in speaking/writing/listening/reading)) If I happen to hesitate using a word, then I don't know it :)

I do lots of reading, actually all I read is in English :) I enjoy reading paper dictionaries :) That's the usual way I pick up new vocabulary, and I also remember the context in which I came across that very word. Sometimes I can immediately use the word, sometimes I can only understand it when meeting somewhere else, yet sometimes it takes centuries just to remember it. I guess, it depends on my mood when I saw the word for the first time :)

However, composing short stories with the word in all its meaning contributes to my vocabulary skills :)

:shy: