happy mama's day.
to my mama.. you probably will not have checked this until after you've received a little delivery from the korean mother's day fairy.
hope you enjoy.
i love you.
more.
;)
5.11.2008
so, but, because & and
okey doke. i'm here. and i've been itching and scratching to get a blog posted and thus, to no avail because (and don't air.punch me for this) i have had basically zero time. now, time is relative, yes. so that's a giant heaping bunch of hullabaloo. hullabalogna. baloney. or the reason i make you click "yes" for potentially explicit material aka.
bullshit.
whew.
so. i tell my children as they're so aptly named, never to begin a sentence with the words "so" "but" "because" or "and".. . any writer will tell you this is just plain donkey manure because well, for one, i am an avid "and" sentence- starter. anyone who has studied poetry knows one is surely allowed to begin a sentence with "and" and often, we are the better for it. i guess this is one of the many reasons, or the many exceptions which make our language so very difficult to learn, no less to teach. i suppose it's a good rule to use as it does whittle out so many inane sentences. every once in a while -i think twice thus far- a student has used and or so, respectively, to begin a sentence and i've let it slide because the sentence is just too good to edit. in attaining my creative writing degree, we learned it's mandatory to learn the craft before being able to apply our individual genius to it. perhaps the same can be said for teaching elementary school english to non-native speakers .. the hump is similar.. depending on which angle you look at it from.
up NEXT: the beginning blogs.. notes from my arrival into sKorea.
promise.
pinky swear.
or as they say in korea. yakso.
they touch thumbs after their pinkies are joined.. that's one.
bullshit.
whew.
so. i tell my children as they're so aptly named, never to begin a sentence with the words "so" "but" "because" or "and".. . any writer will tell you this is just plain donkey manure because well, for one, i am an avid "and" sentence- starter. anyone who has studied poetry knows one is surely allowed to begin a sentence with "and" and often, we are the better for it. i guess this is one of the many reasons, or the many exceptions which make our language so very difficult to learn, no less to teach. i suppose it's a good rule to use as it does whittle out so many inane sentences. every once in a while -i think twice thus far- a student has used and or so, respectively, to begin a sentence and i've let it slide because the sentence is just too good to edit. in attaining my creative writing degree, we learned it's mandatory to learn the craft before being able to apply our individual genius to it. perhaps the same can be said for teaching elementary school english to non-native speakers .. the hump is similar.. depending on which angle you look at it from.
up NEXT: the beginning blogs.. notes from my arrival into sKorea.
promise.
pinky swear.
or as they say in korea. yakso.
they touch thumbs after their pinkies are joined.. that's one.
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