Category Archives: Words in English

Engleza de joi/Flummoxed

Every Thursday comes with a new word.

Only that lately, every Thursday has come in surreptitious* mornings as a scorcher. I am flummoxed.

Flummoxed = confused, so that you do not know what to say or do.

Flummox is also a verb = to confuse somebody so that they do not know what to say or do (not being used in the progressive).

*surreptitious = done secretly or quickly, in the hope that other people will not notice.

As optimism is in the air, let’s feel refreshed by looking at this:

A garden with a sea view

Garden with a sea view by Ivan Fedorovich CHOULTSÉ.

Engleza de joi / Scorcher

Every Thursday comes with a new word. And lately with waves of heat and nights petrified in silent shades.

It is a real scorcher today!

A scorcher = a very hot day.

I like everything about the summer: the beginning of summer, the midsummer days and the dog days.

dog days = the hottest days of the summer.

Winter hold Julius von Klever

Photo: Winter’s hold by Julius von Klever.

Enjoy the dog days!

Engleza de joi / Kudos

Every Thursday comes with a word or phrase.

Today we have:

Kudos – the admiration and respect that goes with a particular achievement or position.

I bid you a wonderful evening!

May you find some answers…Perhaps this is what we are looking for: wonderful evenings and good answers.

Photo: Le port de Saint-Tropez au coucher du soleil Paul Signac 1892.

Le port de Saint-Tropez au coucher du soleil Signac

It is not what you do, but why you do it

“It is not what you do, but why you do it”. I have glimpsed* this in The Game of Thrones.

In marketing the saying goes that people buy “why you do it“, not what you do.

I do what I am keen on, so I do what I do because It is my passion…

What do I do?

Primarily I Teach…I explain and simplify.

Secondarily I listen to people, to their difficulties, challenges, shortcomings, jokes, ideas…Then I explain & write a syllabus.

Then I write more. English poems and stuff…

English is like a shelter, a haven** full of nice words and safe simple sentences… English is easy, if you get to its structure and beauty…

For example, Past Tense Simple is a past tense and Present PerfectTense is a present tense***.

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Create a place of your own and in there, everything must be You:

  • your passions
  • your ideas
  • your dreams
  • your desires
  • your projects
  • your hopes…

For me, this place is called my Job.

*glimpse = to see somebody/something for a moment, but not very clearly.

**haven = a place that is safe and peaceful where people or animals are protected.

***For my grammarian students.

Picture: In English Port by Voitv (Vadim Voitekhovitch), voitv.deviantart.com.

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Love in line (2)

After Van Gogh

Love is pawning your heart

For the trembling sweetness of a memory.

Love is the unnecessary moment

when you see Together…

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Love is imagination

Dancing dragons in the sky…

Love falls down in showers

That autumn rains could not blur.

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Love is painting sunsets

and dreaming at gleaming dawns.

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Love is Eternal

Unicity for One.

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Photo: Bill Flowers
Snakey Night, After Van Gogh
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You might also like: https://blogdecompanie.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/love-in-line-1/.

Copywriting

Copywriting…

All theories converge on EMPATHY. Leave your shoes and step into your customer’s

Do not worry that these shoes are too large to fill. Your ideas and creativity are the best Filling!

Feeling is filling!

Remember that.

I attach a picture which has nothing to do with copywriting…Neverthless, art comes in many shapes.

It is the embodiment of “Feeling is filling your life with joy”.

Calme de soir

Calme de Soir, Cote d’Azur – Ivan Fedorovitch Choultse
(1877-1932)
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Later edit: “Feeling is filling your life with joy” would be my new slogan. The previous being: Just Fight!

Trail away

Girl with lilies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trail me away

with questions

and the weight of your love.

Abyss is not yet invented

Just seen in shadow moons…

Cast me away

with a thought

replenishing with haze

in mid mountain mornings…

I carry feelings

in my pockets

and stories of you

to guard my garden of lilies…

Every night

I wash myself of you

Until another one comes written

Foto: © Alphonse Mucha.

Copywriting & epitomising*

Copywriting is more difficult than Maths.

Every day there appears something new: theory, trend, “axiom”.

Pitagora is obsolete. Nevertheless Euler** is still fashionable as it “encircles” the golden IDEA:

PEOPLE BUY FROM PEOPLE.

Or

I write for people and I communicate with people. And…I thank you for conversing.

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Pentru curs de copywriting in limba engleza va astept mesajul la contact@cursinengleza.ro (sau 0722.841.053).

*epitomise = to be a perfect example of something.

**Euler circle.

https://blogdecompanie.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/thanking/

Love in line (1)

Moonlit night

Love drips

out of my lines.

There is not ink

But sweetness and joy

protruding in small afternoons

befuddled

in glimpses of light

dancing on leaves

and ruby flowers…

When skies glance

at the coolness of moonshine

and butterflies kept in a dream

smile till dawn,

Do not forget…

As long as you feel

the brush of the evening’s wind

coiling like a wild animal

You are as young as

the new roses this year…

Photo: Artist: HASUI, KAWASE (1883-1957)
Title: NIGHT SCENE AT MIYAJIMA SHRINE
Dated: 1947 “good night”!

Thanking

This blog is not about Writing. It is about Thanking…

I thank myself through my poems. As the flocks of words in my head keep bursting into images that only ink can hold. (I am totally unartistic…I cannot draw or paint).

I Thank People…Sometimes for nothing, sometimes for giving me an idea or a glimpse of a feeling, sometimes for heating me with a mere smile, sometimes for just listening….

Through my blog, I have just thrown a gossamer thread…

I am not much of a spider or “spideress”…Nevertheless the thread sticks…

And I keep thanking….The beautiful people for Conversing