I will tell you one thing – most (if not all) language courses suck big time. Why it is so difficult to teach the language – actually it is one thing that everybody, who has kids should know! IMO the biggest problem is that every language course is designed to teach you language, but not…
This thing killed me today (apart from few beers, few shots of whiskey and the devil knows what more). And no – fff doesn’t stand for fuck fuck fuck. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
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I have just realized, that for such country as Algeria it is very strange that they speak (at least a bit) English. Of course, I can survive with my french (non-existant) skills (by pointing with finger). Another strange thing is that they wish bon appetite AFTER eating my food, if they were referring to digesting…
The question, which arose was – why metaphor works? Should it not be formed according to our life experiences, religious beliefs, country we live and surrounding environment? The answer is somewhat moody – if you do not have experience and archetypes when creating metaphor – your expression could be not so effective, but in general…
..So the start of journey to rhetoric is to understand how unconsciousness works, to go deep to psycholinguistics. As it has been mentioned before – this is related to unique skill of a human – to notice and summarize similarities between different individuals and object classes. It is the same principle which is used in…
Yesterday I have received an article and a book about rhetoric, specifically about inventio. It has ruined everything I thought I knew about it and made be interested in the stuff. For example I have thought about rhetoric as an art to put your ideas in a nice way, but after 1/3 of the book…
Repairing sofa in Brno is like a computer game, a quest: first you need to learn Czech language to find Ikea service centre. second you need to call them and they will tell you, that they speak English if you prefer it that way. third you need to persuade them, that it is worth to…
