tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.comments2013-01-12T15:56:03.844-08:00Flock of FlamingosAnnamarie Mickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555809479971181673noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-65845066866923302872013-01-12T15:56:03.844-08:002013-01-12T15:56:03.844-08:00I'm so glad you like it! Thank you for allowi...I'm so glad you like it! Thank you for allowing me to analyze your comic. ^^ I look forward seeing the adventure continue!Annamarie Mickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14555809479971181673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-82443667745854955792013-01-07T21:07:11.728-08:002013-01-07T21:07:11.728-08:00Wow, thank you so much for putting this together! ...Wow, thank you so much for putting this together! ;__; It's a wonderfully in-depth analysis. I actually feel like I've learned a lot more about the visual choices I made in these pages :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-58019449402643681852012-08-29T06:15:03.152-07:002012-08-29T06:15:03.152-07:00So glad you liked it!! I really want to see Glass...So glad you liked it!! I really want to see Glass Mask get more recognition. :<Annamarie Mickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14555809479971181673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-82374527498581863262012-08-28T22:34:32.583-07:002012-08-28T22:34:32.583-07:00YES. THIS. Amen. It's about time this anime/ma...YES. THIS. Amen. It's about time this anime/manga duo was pulled out from the gutters and shone for the gem it really is. Beautifully, well written review. <3*Kaydee Stratis*https://www.blogger.com/profile/09428570958862393348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-43429216154628966992012-06-19T17:02:32.744-07:002012-06-19T17:02:32.744-07:00When I was replying to Caitlin, I sort of was able...When I was replying to Caitlin, I sort of was able to stumble upon the idea of WRITING vs. SPEAKING. When one is chatting or e-mailing, we tend to write more as we SPEAK, not as we WRITE, which is utilized for scholarly things. (So therefore chatting/e-mailing/etc. is actually more of a SPEAKING exercise rather than a WRITING one.) I think as long as we can keep that dichotomy, the quality of the language will remain intact.<br /><br />Beware the thesarus! That's one lesson I have never forgotten. Though I often use the thesarus when I'm writing, you definitely have to be careful about the EXACT definition of the word you choose. I love words, so learning the subtle differences between synonyms is really fascinating.<br /><br />I suppose if the English language fell so badly that it actually negatively affected society somehow, we would probably be mentally unable to notice the difference or be concerned. It would be like a Newspeak thing from 1984. You can't describe what you don't have the vocabulary to describe.Annamarie Mickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14555809479971181673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-84306109280610576752012-06-19T16:56:23.600-07:002012-06-19T16:56:23.600-07:00The "sympathy" aspect is one of the reas...The "sympathy" aspect is one of the reasons I'm started to find English so fascinating (which is what I'll be looking at in my next blog post). I think other languages are much more specific and controlled in a way. (I'm going to infer that Japanese, for example, is probably like this, as it's a very complicated language, though never having really researched it I can't accurately say.)<br /><br />Hopefully interest in English as a language will remain; its variances are what make it unique. Travel across the United States, even from state to state, and you come across new colloquialisms, sayings, accents, etc. Certainly other languages have some variances in accent and such as well (such as French and Japanese), but I don't think it's as widespread as English is, which is so openly versatile.<br /><br />Still, of course that's no excuse to not be educated. I do think we should be highly aware of the quality of our writing. So really, the WRITING of English vs. SPEAKING of English are two different topics, which is really interesting. We write scholarly works differently than we talk. In a way, the way we type on-line often is a more accurate representation of how we talk.<br /><br />So is writing non-scholarly work, such as e-mail or chatting, more TALKING in its essence than it is WRITING? And as long as we are able to differentiate between the two, are our concerns about the quality of the English language unfounded?Annamarie Mickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14555809479971181673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-3669643094509637952012-06-19T15:31:45.893-07:002012-06-19T15:31:45.893-07:00Of course English is meant to be spoken. Virtuall...Of course English is meant to be spoken. Virtually all languages were spoken far before they were written. In a way, symbolic languages (Heiroglyphics, Chinese) don't actually write the spoken language at all - they're more akin to math in that regard (though at least Mandarin now has a phonetic alphabet as well.) The main concern I would have is that the written and spoken words feed each other. People speak with the words they read. If what people mostly read are text messages, language will begin to reflect that. I'm not going to say that's good or bad, but longer works - books, namely - provide more opportunity to plumb the depth of the English language, enriching what's both written and spoken. That being said, for as many mediocre web articles out there, there are plenty of wonderfully intelligent and well-worded articles.<br /><br />Limited vocabulary skills makes the language flat. The English language is rich because it is capable of making so many careful distinctions and has such a large bank of near-synonyms. Without mastery of these words and their incredibly subtle meanings, English loses a lot of its beauty and wonder. I'm not a lingual doomsayer, by any means. People will always find ways of expressing themselves - who is anyone to dictate the RIGHT way? Humans use language to convey meaning to each other. If it's mutually understood, it's language.Master Yogurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13905287973610189550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381158802665564154.post-6829599463167041102012-06-19T14:35:43.990-07:002012-06-19T14:35:43.990-07:00Beautiful Essay!
My personal problem with the Eng...Beautiful Essay!<br /><br />My personal problem with the English language is that - while I do have a fairly sound understanding of how to use it - sometimes my brain and mouth do not like to cooperate. When I speak, I am sometimes in situations where I simply speak incorrectly (despite knowing that I'm incorrect) because I'm in a hurry to get something out there or simply because I'm at a loss for words. When I'm writing, however, I manage to sound much more eloquent. Going off of that idea, I feel that English has become a language of "Well, I sort of understood what you were saying anyway." as opposed to highly specific rules. So I would say that it is a language of sympathy. Not everyone will speak at the same level depending on their upbringing and such. For the most part, though, despite these differences of background or what have you, we can understand. While that deviates heavily from English's origins, I feel as though it is a change that is beneficial to the people that speak the language. At the end of the day, though, all languages have their faults and no one speaks perfectly all of the time. Language is not meant to be taken too seriously; it should be respected and paid attention to, but had fun with at the same time. Our words are endless and we have a tremendous variety of ways to conjugate sentences that mean the same thing. People find that fun, too - that's why wordplay is such a common form of humor. I believe that fact alone proves that the English language is not dying; it will cease to live when people cease to find joy and wonder in it<br /><br />~CaitlinAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17817883263915141373noreply@blogger.com