Insights

English is such a profound thing. English writting has intrigued me. It can be said as a platform for 'expressing ideas' or 'expressing our thoughts'. Choice of words is one of the interesting aspects. Each reader would have a slightly different impression and interpretation for a particular word. This is because each reader have their own status, perspective and past experience. Like my Business Law lecturer, 'sole proprietor' gives him the impression of a lonely man such as Michael Jackson. But to me, the first image that comes to my mind is a poor man, a provision shop uncle. (Probably fed to my mind by my Infa tutor when i first came across this phrase)

Two words with the same meaning can give different impressions to readers too. E.g. Accelerate and quicken. We may feel that 'quicken' is very fast while 'accelerate' is even faster. So the choice of words is quite important to expressing what one really feels. Of course, the writer's vocab mustn't be too shabby.

Colours can actually be used as an adjective to convey messages. I remembered my Sec 4 english teacher once explained to us the phrase 'the white door', in one of the articles. 'White' gives us the impression of purity, clean and maybe coldness. Other colours like blue signifies calmness and so on. Everybody knows it subconsiously. But most have not brought it to the conscious level. Had to thanks her for bringing it to our awareness. It makes us both a better writer and a better reader.

Err...Johnny English has nth to do with this post

Well...Ms Betsy is a good teacher because what she had taught us makes us feel that we had learnt nothing in the past three years. Like the phrase "一针见血", she always enlighten us. Another thing she had taught is to be as detailed as possible when describing a scene. Describing to the finest details like the texture and the temperature lets the readers form an image of that scene in their mind, bringing them into the story. A slow motion story. Thus a five minutes encounter can become a very impactful recount.

The way points and ideas are organised, punctuations and caps affects the flow of the story and the interpretation to it too. English is really profound. What was taught in secondary schools are just basics. There is a lot more than that to vocabulary and grammars. I still have a long way to go. But i will continue learning new vocabs, exercise them and also learn from well-written articles i come across.

There's a lot more to learn.