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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I wrote:

One young man annoyed Brecht with a requst of
advice

*for* advice.

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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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