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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Word of Yesterday. 12-04-2011.


Word of the Day

Monday, April 11, 2011

balderdash

   \ BAWL-der-dash \  , noun;
1.
Senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense.
2.
(Archaic:) A muddled mixture of liquors.
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quotes:
"That bit about cleanliness being next to godlinesswas a lot of balderdash  as far as I was concerned."
-- Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have letmyself be entangled for so long in that balderdash  ofbooks and paper blackened with ink! In that day ofseparation, my friend had helped me to see clearly.
-- Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman, Zorba the Greek
Origin:
Balderdash  has a mysterious origin, but originally meanta muddled mixture of liquors.
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