Language; television

[sister_luck]

Marking makes me cranky. After reading lots of weird sentences I'm sure that my instincts fail me completely and I end up questioning everything. Aided by a bilingual dictionary my students come up with the most outrageous translations - we were only allowed a monolingual one back in the day and it's rather difficult to convince my students that the bilingual dictionary is no big help if you end up using the completely wrong words and then I'm having to sort out what they meant to say in the first place.

Then there's collocations. I'm rather wary of the phrases that have crept into the English as taught by German teachers that are not quite the right usage and I'm always afraid I'm doing the same. (Hell, I know I've done it - I used to think that you could hold a speech and it didn't mean having your hands on the manuscript but actually like giving it.) So, at the moment I'm struggling with advertising language and the AIDA formula and asking myself what kind of verbs go with the nouns attention (attract, grab, draw attention to), interest (attract and what else?), desire (wake?) and action (take, that's easy!). I'm thoroughly confusing myself here.

Tomorrow I'll watch rugby on tv, because I can.

I've watched the season premiere of Heroes which was okay, but Mohinder is really annoying me, Dexter which piled on the pressure for our serial killer and a rather self-indulgent but kind of endearing special about Ian Rankin's Edinburgh.

Comments

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Heroes was so so for me. I agree about Mohinder. Noah rocks though.

Speaking of Rankin's Edinburgh, have you seen Reichenbach Falls?

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

There was a ad for it at the end of the Rankin programme saying it was based on one of his ideas. I made a joke about how he had been drinking in a pub with a tv producer/writer and that's how they came up with the idea, but that's all I know about it. Is it worth checking out?

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

gah, an ad - *hangs head in shame*

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

It's interesting and worth watching if you aren't spoiled about the main twist, could have been better though. The whole thing looks like a big joke but the acting makes you feel for the character.

The lead is that pretty Scottish actor who starred in "Dune" and played Drogyn in "Angel"...which is the reason I downloaded the film!

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

We might have to try it then. I'll let you know what I thought.