Showing posts with label Lingua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lingua. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Awe to Our Blogging Habit

This is the only addiction difficult as a habit. My craving for musing is fast declining into the maze of my daily activities, the event of the new year, homesickness and my financial well-being into tight spot. My elixir of consciousness has not brewed yet such that my appetite for sleep is once again spoiled by few deep thoughts.

I seized my self into believing that this blog will get me to few Dollar or Dirhams well off. I will have to quit this day job if I'm ever going to be soaked into the blogging business. The habit offers a vial of bliss such that, the obsession of having it monetized spoils it like a boring office work you hoped you're working with the envied Google Company.

Blogging. This has somehow, become a habit difficult to break even if time is - tight. I find comfort in it and is now, an addict to impersonal communication like making love to your spouse a thousand miles away over the cable lines except that you need not to dress off. Imagine the convenience it offers; the vanity press of the poor. A cheap and yet complex place of liberal compositions where technical writing is often ousted. You can be flowery and often careless with bare words so long as you like it. Or, you can be concealing so long as you're cautious. We fear our dignity broken like a glass goblet in the hands of a careless child. A careless revelation.

I'll never be able to publish a book. I prefer short lived lines - musings of some sort. I am an undisciplined writer. A rebel. An anti-novel. I'll slam my head into sleep if I read long lines. Perhaps this has something to do with my daily chores at the office. I hated long and un-indented lines of programming codes such that I'll throw away the job to the ones who started it. To have it commented and readable like a short story. Truly essays can not marry technical writings. This blog is a dump-site for my emotional setbacks. It is never a work.

And like a marriage you're having fights too often, I struggle over the construct of my sentences. The panic over the right use of words caused me seconds of pauses. Such that this bulky thesaurus is an Alamo of literary relief. Like a father guiding his child on its first few steps towards a vast walks in life. Little by little, learning drops like tiny molehills of waters that breaks loose - shaping a land.

Oftentimes, I shielded my efforts with the bullies of pictures but aware that it cheapens my message. With an image, a story can become an encyclopedic composition or more like an adult magazine. Our eyes prefer that which is bare and suggestive but our mind is sometimes corrupt and unrestrained. Sins are committed due to unrestrained judgments. Underestimating the power of the words, we forgot that everything was created with the words of the Creator never with a picture. "... and He sees that it was good", the picture came out later.

 

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Coherence

Because I am lazy, I always missed out coherence in writing sometimes leading to my own confusion. I usually had to reread several times my posted blogs before I will realize my writing is like an uneven painted wall. I always have a habit of firing words and forget nevertheless, I am comfortable doing it that way. It is the coming back that I always feel awful reading it because I knew then I was not doing a good job. But, rather forgetting the discipline of a writer - coherence.

My mistakes too were attributed to not having observed to select the right words for what I meant. I knew selecting the right words for the things I needed to say has to be precise - giving the correct meaning to my thoughts. Why is the English language not so convenient to use sometimes but rather, how do you call it, meticulously necessary?

Wailua1152 Coherence is I think the soul of what we are trying to write. While you give your readers a chance to breath through paragraphing, we make sense through it all by observing coherence. Imagine a torso of a man whose spinal chords are weak, they would appear bendy and the threat that they would fall off. All writing must be in harmony with nature. Breathing like a free flowing water.

I've heard this a millionth of times since my school days. Well, I had few literature teachers, having to speak Carabao English most of the time, is very aware of the coherence in writing. I haven't mastered this technique though. And, I continuously committed the mistake of not having to observe this.

So from definition by ANSWERS.COM:

It is the way a writing is logically layed out and connected. If it was an essay, one thing leads on to another, for example one paragraph leads on to another-the main ideas of each paragraph seem to connect but still make sense. this makes the reader feel that your writing is constantly flowing.

It also means you are very consistent in your writing. consistently and continuously through your writing you can connect each paragraph some how, that you can consistently write concisely as well. You can also consistently write in formal English. You can express yourself clearly and continuously through your essay for example.

Lingua Franca

Because English is not my regular language, some points I needed to say is wrapped in my native tongue which then is translated into English. My English teacher used to tell me among other students that we need to think English in our heads in order to speak it effectively. It would be like having a pre-processor of everything before you write or speak the language.

image Their are points in our heads that are just hard enough to explain thoroughly in English that, as it turns out, misses some significant points. The feeling is like trying to set foot on the sand while your body is floating on a body of water above your waist. Desperate enough to afoot against the current, you hover and momentum is just so difficult to achieve.

Nevertheless, learning the matter is somewhat an adventure. All my posts are experimental. It will usually take me several re-readings of my posts that I find them either awkward to read and needing reconstructions.

I welcome criticisms. After all, this is just part of my learning. After all, like everything in my work in IT, nobody taught me stuff. After multiple mistakes and discoveries, I can say that I'm doing well and just like any other endeavors, I'm beginning to set foot firmly.

(See not even the picture has something to do with what I'm talking about here) BUT, it's for you to find out the relevance, HEHEHEHE! Let's just say some stuff need to learn are tough as a game and we need to lighten up. :o)

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