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I accept the potency of legislating English as the international community's second language. I don't accept the enervatingly inanimate recipe by which the English language is taught.
Honing one's artfulness with a language isn't like launching a smoother paper. A language - a common language - isn't merely an instrument that you can teach yourself to exploit with greater amounts of precision. A living language can't be unyoked from the shared logic of a society of which it is a description. A language isn't recited; it happens - and keeps happening as long as a circle of people keeps using it.
Teaching a person to recite English is to cheat him out of its cultural context. A good educator has to have a blueprint for introducing it; the smartest student goes out to seek it.
A dictionary can be an influential tool. A decent dictionary will describe words on the basis of a particular corpus, a body of written works of various scope and consistency. They might contain anything from a book about literature to a lot of elaborate fictions. I watched many nights pass developing my "unimposing" Fiction Corpus to form a distinct sort of dictionary based on the ability of one man to tell a story in many different forms. It is a labor of love and listening.
I have pieced together a million words and I have categorized them, reformulating them - not simply to teach the English tongue but to reveal the human soul, and to pressure that spirit or soul not just to recite but to happen.
Michal's Dictionary: Understanding the word Statue
A word can represent many things. First and foremost it represents a type of gesture. A specific way of speaking. A specific way of inscribing a mark. A specific way of moving your hand. To know one of these kinds of gestures is to know how to pronounce the word statue in some kind of way.
If you want to communicate an idea using the word statue, you will need to know what other people are made to think when you make the gesture. You will never have complete awareness of or control over the associations or identities that are invoked by a set of words, but you can know what was and what is a single word's jointly accepted definition, at least for a given place, thereby tracing a direction which will help you to understand what kinds of associations and identities are driving its use.
By using the word yourself, you enter into a long-standing albeit oftentimes unconscious debate over its definition, forever entangling yourself into the history of its use. The way you use it, and which other words you use it with carries weight.
The more you know about where the word statue is located in the fabric of a language, the better you will be at exploiting its cultural power.
Pronunciation of Statue
I have yet to publish a pronunciation for the word statue.
Video of me pronouncing "statue."
Definition of Statue
A statue is usually a sculpture in the likeness of a man but this is not always the case. Because the man in question is usually either famous or supposed to be famous or else recognized for having done something, the sculpture in question can be in the likeness of anything that 's remotely famous, like a building.
Common use of statue in illustrative example sentences
I have yet to come up with a third sentence using the word statue.
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I have yet to come up with a fifth sentence using the word statue.
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I have yet to come up with a sixth sentence using the word statue.
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I have yet to come up with a seventh sentence using the word statue.
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Usage of Statue in Michal's Fiction Corpus
Michal's Fiction Corpus of Acceptance Literature (FiCAL) is presented under the Bare Bottom imprint. It is currently comprised of six bodies of work, each representing a different pillar of culture and incorporating a wide variety of writhing styles.
I have yet to make a morphological analysis of the word statue.
That doesn't mean it's not high on my list.
Table of Frequency for the Word "Statue."
This table lists in descending order the total number of times that the word statueand any of its morphological derivations appears in the Fiction Corpus, along with a breakdown of frequency by title, the respective rank of each word in the complete list of all words in the Corpus, as calculated both densely and competitively, as well as the percent increase in frequency of the word over the frequency of the next lowest rank in the complete list.
Percent Increase over next rank
RANK
WORD
Frequency
TOTAL # of occurences
MCDONALDS
JESUS
SEX
TSIGA
JACKSON
DINGBATS
dense
competitive
modern/sloppy
biblical/terse
poetic/high-brow
hard/fast
talky
mixed salad
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I have yet to publish the table of frequency for the word statue, but I will get to it shortly. -Michal
A story bible for a comic book series set in a post climate-change California narrated by eight characters who live through a natural disaster that sinks Los Angeles and triggers a war with an expansionist Mexican government covertly supported by China.
Frame #1300
i found the statue of the black mouse. it was covered with vines. somebody tied a note to the nose. let me guess. my informant.
An experimental science fiction Christology that makes Jesus the hard boiled narrator of his own early years on a bizarro earth made dark by volcanic ash and informally ruled by a man from Mars who sells bottled air.
"He was the first Polish pope," said Jesus. "He probably visited Treblinka - I don't know: his statue's everywhere - in every Polish town. He did lots and lots of good things back then. He was a very good man. When he was chosen for the popehood, it was the single greatest honor the Nation had ever received."
"Many years ago," said Jesus, smirking, "before I was ripped from my homeland's arms and taken to the United States of America. This," said Jesus, pointing to a statue of St. Michael piercing the dragon, "is my guardian angel. When I was young - just barely able to walk - I would lead people to this dragon and say 'Pheh' - bad - waving my hand."
A literature book narrated by a pair of siblings on either side of the Atlantic whose profoundly weird sexual experiences pose a serious challenge to their traditional understanding of mathematicians, marriage, gay young men and God.
"Statue" does not make an appearance in Sex For Children.
A collection of stories featuring a sexy Parisian ghost, a spooky Moon base full of vagina-faced aliens, a policeman with an Irish name, a truck full of watermelons, a flautist, and a man who has to see another man about a diseased horse.
The suspect was probably Taiwanese, the Beipu incident having occurred first. Though he was present in the United States during the summer, he was now believed to be in Japan. He nursed a penchant for watching women fall from tall buildings, especially large statues. Presumably, he employed a type of breakaway collar on his victims. The FBI was paying attention. Help came from every angle. Juanita, of all people, came up with an idea.
The poor devil, crouching at the water's edge, his back to the beach and the waves lapping at his balls, had no idea what hit him. The dog, doubtlessly overjoyed to be out of retirement for the day, hit the man with such force that a slender plastic bag full of green little herbs dislodged itself from underneath the sign on its back.
"Cannabis!" yelled Patsy, running to the scene of the crime. "Cannabis!" he yelled, flailing all five limbs.
A woman who started swimming crawl must have noticed something in the corner of her eye. She stopped and stared at Patsy's naked body. He waved and smiled. The woman screamed. Instead of pointing, she began splashing hysterically. The lifeguard dove into the water. Everybody stared. "I'm over here," cried Patsy.
"I'm telling you, Lieutenant, my Nancy would never have jumped-the Statue of Liberty of all places. She was a good girl, that's the God's honest truth. She was ambitious-true. She wanted to achieve great things. Not that she couldn't, but-you know. She was a very good student. Not great, but good."
"There are so many risks," continued Patsy. "So many things could go wrong. He must have tried it once before: someplace safe. A statue or a monument he was familiar with. If not in the United States, then where?"
A real play. With drama in it. Talk fast. It takes two hours. Set in a guest house. In a small community. After a murder. Lots of suspicion. The characters learn to listen to each other. It's funny.
"Statue" does not make an appearance in Sorry Miss Jackson.
A story book full of short fiction stories. An interesting bedtime mystery. A fairy tale. Science fiction romance. Adult life. Uninspiring gay fiction. Horror.
"Detective Carlson," came the mocking tone. "Nice of you to join us." The captain was at the crime scene. That meant there was no doubt. There was a link with the first body. "Are you ready for class?" continued the captain. "We're drawing from life today." It was another man. Standing naked. Twisting. His arm over his head. His eyes closed. His face cherry red. It was turned against his shoulder. Looking back as if on a lover. Frozen in a wistful remembrance of ecstasy too swiftly gone by. It was a statue of dead flesh.
This table lists in descending order of frequency a selection of word pairs that appear in the Fiction Corpus and groups them according to the morphological derivation of the word statue that appears in the pair.
Type
WORD
Frequency
TOTAL # of occurences
MCDONALDS
JESUS
SEX
TSIGA
JACKSON
DINGBATS
modern/sloppy
biblical/terse
poetic/high-brow
hard/fast
talky
mixed salad
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I have yet to perform a collocation analysis of "statue." I hope I can get it done sometime soon. -Michal
It's natural to hide dirty things. They're embarrassing. But we need to keep in mind that when we hide things that are difficult, we make them seem dirty when they're really something else entirely. And when we keep things that are easy in plain sight, we make them seem clean when they really aren't. That is dangerous.
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