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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, March 13, 2012

THE OVERUSE OF AS WELL


Has anyone noticed the recent overuse of the phrase "as well"? Almost
every talking head on television, especially on news shows seems
compelled to use this phrase instead of the ordinary, the pedestrian "too"
, "also", or "additionally" in any sentence diagram.
I am catching the tragic whiff of a bit of social climbing, the desire to
appear more cultured, more erudite. This particular construction, "as
well", is more common to the English language heard across the Big
Pond. Useful and appropriate in various applications, the professional
yakkers seem to employ the phrase as an affectation. Am I imagining this
trend? It annoys me and, my friends as well.

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