Re: How do You Use Native Material?
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:24 pm
Many thanks. Many many thanks. It took a couple of readings, but now I've got it. I had been thinking of weather. In fact, I vaguely begin to think I have probably seen this usage before. Now however, I'm disturbed by "tire", although it presumably means much the same thing as "prise" in this context, but I'm going to be feeling anxious until I go and look it up in the dictionary.
Incidently, there used to be a japanese girl on lang-8, who wrote the most beautiful, delicate, almost perfect, poetry in English and French, even though her actual language skills were quite limited. I think she spent quite a lot of time searching for accurate phrases on the internet, and reassemling them into poems. So an appreciation of the beauty of a sentence, even without full understnding, may be possible.
Incidently, there used to be a japanese girl on lang-8, who wrote the most beautiful, delicate, almost perfect, poetry in English and French, even though her actual language skills were quite limited. I think she spent quite a lot of time searching for accurate phrases on the internet, and reassemling them into poems. So an appreciation of the beauty of a sentence, even without full understnding, may be possible.