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Originally Posted by Numinous
Ok, Pooh, what else would one call a teenager's 'blurt'?
I lived in England for two years while going to film school. I lived in Australia for six (so I had to learn to spell colour and tyre both ways). I've been a "student of English" most of my life. I write sometimes. I was a communication studies major in college with side interests in anthropology and linguistics. So now you know a little about me  .
Back on topic:
My daughter is more interested in the sciences and wants to become a CSI. She attended a summer program at a university outside D. C. last summer for that. She has very little interest, academically, in the liberal arts in spite of being an avid reader since the age of 10. I'm grateful for the existence of the Kindle because she's getting some education in that area without even knowing it  . |
I KNEW you had to have British/Commonwealth language training in your past - how's that for a CSI deduction. It's an apt description for teenage talk (I won't go into the messy similes currently running through my head comparing the 2 usages - hehe) - but I remember a post long ago here severely lambasting a reader's choice of mysteries - Conan Doyle, Ngaio Marsh, Agatha Christie, etc. - on the basis of the outmoded overusage of such terms as "ejaculated" - apparently the mental image of Dr. Watson continuously ejaculating at Holmes was too much for the reviewer.
Anyways, I had a similar educational experience to that of your daughter - I went into the sciences academically which left little or no time in my curriculum to take literature courses - although I was then, and still am, a voracious reader. I would have killed for a Kindle, or eReader while I was a student - both to decrease the number of books I lugged around, and to increase the variety of what I read. Keep loading that Kindle for her! Give her an Amazon Gift Card on gift occasions!
