After a protracted period of inactivity owing to assignments , quizzes, presentations and other horrors, i am back to take the blogosphere by storm , seize it by the scruff of its neck and set it afire with my dazzling displays of literary prowess.
Ahhhhh.
So much for the bluster.
Even if John Lennon maintains that life is what happens when we are busy making other plans, it sometimes scares me to think of how little of my life I've planned out. Everyone around me seems to have their life all chalked out, right down to the minutest details, and here I am, nearly deciding impulsively to choose a minor in Communication because it contained a course on Rhetoric,being the same course old Robert Pirsig taught in "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
I was eventually put off by the excessively theoretical nature of the courses, replete with linguistics and phonetics and the like. And if there are two other things i can't stand, they are grammar and incompetence, both of which form the core of the college's English Department.
Oh and by the way, question in my English quiz:
Synonym for 'Resilience' - Fl________
All you self-anointed gods of the language, take a shot.
Friday, April 01, 2005
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- a recluse waiting for salvation
7 comments:
Synonym for Resilience, eh?
Flah... Flah... er.... Florence Nightingale?
:(
According to thesaurus.reference.com its flaccidity or flexibility.
I wish I was a god of language.
hehe sid, i didnt get it either.
modesty, thy name is saba.
The answer was given out to be 'flexibililty', though i cannot, for the life of me, imagine how that is a direct synonym.
hehe sid, i didnt get it either.
modesty, thy name is saba.
The answer was given out to be 'flexibililty', though i cannot, for the life of me, imagine how that is a direct synonym.
hmphm! resilience and fleibility?! hmphm!
i see no connection :(
resilience is recovering quickly, almost to originial form, springing back. in the way that it's flexible probably draws from the meaning of resilience when refering to an object, rather than a personality. though with a little stretch i can see it there as well.
well mr yacketayakking screaming vomitting whispering i definitely feel that i am living through each and every word that ya've written abt the way you go about.
it is all the same here i am a confused,dont-know-what-to-do-next-moment and added to that i am at the crossroads of joining the career path.
huh
feel some1 is there who can feel the incongrouity that i feel...
(mind you iam a little malapropic)
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