Monday, October 6, 2008

John Singer Sargent In the Luxembourg Gardens painting

John Singer Sargent In the Luxembourg Gardens paintingJohn Singer Sargent In the Luxembourg Garden paintingJohn Singer Sargent Home Fields painting
discipline if we are not to lose this opportunity.
Say we come across the word philology. It means the However, it can look pompous or pretentious to use many long and obscure words in everyday speech. The main benefit of having a large vocabulary is the ability to use a word with exactly the right meaning at a time when it is appropriate. A secondary benefit is that we better understand intellectual writing. There are many guides to good style and you have to find one that suits you. In general it is better to keep your written and spoken sentences short and of language and its historical development. It comes from the ancient Greek word philos, meaning a friend, and the Greek word logos, meaning a word – so philology’s roots means love of words. While we are in this section of the dictionary we might notice that philanthropy, philately, philharmonic and philosall use the same Greek root of philos and they all refer to the love of something. If we do this we are on our way to becoming a philologist, someone who loves words and the studies the of language.

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