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@DscplnDThghT8 ай бұрын
What a way to end it. "Fiction becomes truthful precisely at the moment its artificiality is acknowledged" 👌
@SWLF8 ай бұрын
Thanks, @princevv2083 ! Prof Elbom did such a great job with this video. We hope you enjoy the other videos in this series as well!
@marylee8372 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for all of your videos in this series! I teach EFL and these videos help me to explain the vagaries of English grammar and literature to my students.
@SWLF Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for your kind words, Mary Lee! We're delighted to hear that you have found the lessons useful, and we hope you enjoy this one as well!
@miyayume_eclectic_dream9 ай бұрын
I never came across this word till now. It looks that the book A Memory called Empire is going to teach me language as well being an fascinating space opera.
@SWLF9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment, @miyayume9127 ! But how did you get from the term verisimilitude to A Memory Called Empire? Does this novel use the term?
@miyayume_eclectic_dream9 ай бұрын
@@SWLF Exactly. The language in the book has its own "way of being spoken" I'll call it as I don't know the term for it. At some point verisimilitude was used and it didn't feel like a word created for the book, not in the way it was done in The Goblin Emperor [in has a small dictionary at the end of the book]. Google did help but this video made it more verisimilitude. [ Tried a word play here. Not sure it worked. 😆]
@SWLF9 ай бұрын
Nicely done, @@miyayume_eclectic_dream ! We're glad to hear the you enjoyed the verisimilitude of Prof. Elbom's lesson on verisimilitude. OK, now we're being silly too... Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
@kiesernation19778 ай бұрын
Every day I try to expand my vocabulary by using new words to give my arguments more Verisimilitude. Today's word: "Expand".
@SWLF8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment, @kiesernation1977 ! We're delighted to hear you found the lesson useful!
@smritiagarwal45346 ай бұрын
Incredible
@SWLF6 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for checking out so many of our lessons, Smitri!
@la_profe_paula_poh11 ай бұрын
Excelente vídeo!!
@SWLF11 ай бұрын
Thanks so much, Paula!!! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well.
@shiprapathak6470 Жыл бұрын
Can A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man be considered as a good example of Verisimilitude?
@SWLF Жыл бұрын
Interesting question, Shipra! How are you thinking the term could work here?
@shiprapathak6470 Жыл бұрын
@@SWLF I mean, when the narrator Stephen is a child the narrative is childish and as he grows up the narrative becomes mature. The starting few chapters are childlike and when the narrator becomes an intellectual, the later chapters become philosophical. So, in this sense can we say it's an example of Verisimilitude?
@brianwalter5503 Жыл бұрын
Reality: "[O]ne of the few words which mean nothing without quotes." -- Vivian Darkbloom :)
@SWLF Жыл бұрын
Ha! Ole Nabokov certainly was team counter-argument, wasn't he? Thanks for the post, Brian.