By Metaphors, Essays

Anonymous wrote:high every one, I wrote an essay on the poem I heard a fly buzz when I died and I need someone to tell me if it is correct. may be I should tell you that I am not a native english speaker so donot be harsh here it is I Heard a Fly-Buzz When...

high every one, I wrote an essay on the poem I heard a fly buzz when I died and I need someone to tell me if it is correct. may be I should tell you that I am not a native english speaker so donot be harsh here it is I Heard a Fly-Buzz When I Died ...

Ur... What do you mean by 'external - internal' distinction? I take an object to be 'external' iff it presupposes the existence of objects independent of the contingent object itself. Thus, if the knowledge of language is external, all justifications for it must be 'external' (1), and requires...

LOL is one of many shorthand terms used first by chatters and now by those who text message or email a lot. "How come?" is a poor way of saying "Why?" "What for?" asks a slightly different question:Can I borrow ten dollars?Why? (or "How come") -- why do you need my money? (Maybe, because I'm...

Clive wrote: Hi, When I read your list, I'm struck by two things. 1. The metaphors listed by Orwell are certainly taking a long time to die. Most of them are still in wide use today. 2. All of the words he listed as pretentious seem to me, today, to be part of standard English with no...

I would like to ask you what are the "catch-phrases" that make you wince when you see them in writing George Orwell, in his wonderful 1946 essay, "Politics and the English language", listed some dying metaphors, for example, "...toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with,...

The above 'Anonymous' query was my post (I just joined so you kind people who respond don't feel like you are talking to a person with 'dark glasses' on ) Clive wrote: I'm not sure exactly what you want to say. Can you perhaps do something with the words ambiguous or ambivalent? I don't...

Dear Members! I am a new member and I would need some urgent academic help. Tomorrow i have to submit an essay for my postgraduate study. as Slovenian I am not sure if everything is in order in the essay. I attached the essay in this message. If anybody would consider looking into my essay I...

Thanks for your help. I always face the interference between English and Vietnamese. Self-love is not self-abuse but it's not self-fish in our language, it's describe a state of a person who feels very, very hurt but I think you are right because you r English is better than me. Execute means...

With A Theory of Justice (ATJ), John Rawls attempts to propose ('attempts to propose', or simply 'proposes'?) an alternative to the major political view dominating Anglo-Saxon politics, namely utilitarianism. As such, Rawls's work emphasises the rights of (omit 'the') individuals over the...