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I think highly of the prospect of exploiting English as an international standard. I don't think highly of the prosaic mode in which the English tongue is presented for study.
Upgrading a person's command of a language isn't like launching a stronger oar. A language - a spoken language - is not just an instrument that you can teach yourself to use with greater amounts of precision. A language cannot be cleaved from the prevailing culture of a recognized nation 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.
To make pupils recite English is to deprive them of its cultural context. A capable teacher has to find a way to introduce it; the smartest pupil ventures out to seek it.
A dictionary has the potential to be an influential tool. The best dictionaries describe words based on a specific corpus, a body of written works of varying scope and consistency. They could contain anything from a book about literature to a whole bunch of flash fiction. I suffered many a sleepless night developing my "enormous" Fiction Corpus in order to form a unique sort of dictionary based on the ability of one man to tell a story in myriad forms. It is a labor of love and listening.
I have shaped a million words and I have anatomized them, reframing them - not merely to teach English vocabulary but to promote the human soul, and to propel that soul or spirit not just to recite but to happen.
Michal's Dictionary: Understanding the word Tomorrow
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 tomorrow in some kind of way.
If you want to communicate an idea using the word tomorrow, 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 tomorrow is located in the fabric of a language, the better you will be at exploiting its cultural power.
Pronunciation of Tomorrow
I have yet to publish a pronunciation for the word tomorrow.
Video of me pronouncing "tomorrow."
Definition of Tomorrow
I have yet to publish the definition of tomorrow.
I'm sure it won't take too long.
Common use of tomorrow in illustrative example sentences
I have yet to come up with another sentence using the word tomorrow.
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I have yet to come up with a third sentence using the word tomorrow.
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I have yet to come up with a fourth sentence using the word tomorrow.
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I have yet to come up with a fifth sentence using the word tomorrow.
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I have yet to come up with a sixth sentence using the word tomorrow.
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Usage of Tomorrow 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 tomorrow.
That doesn't mean it's not high on my list.
Table of Frequency for the Word "Tomorrow."
This table lists in descending order the total number of times that the word tomorrowand 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 tomorrow, 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 #3912
i need to make a shortlist of schools to visit tomorrow. i dont know how many i can see in one day. i should start small.
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.
"'The fucking coal police,' he said. 'They're investigating.' As he turned around, he was like, 'Don't play with that.' And then he left."
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.
NIKE: Come on: don't bullshit me. As long as they're intact, I'm fine.
DOC: Any such condition would probably be temporary.
NIKE: Exactly: I'm not tryin' to make a baby tomorrow.
DOC: Mr. Romanov...
– Title 3, Regarding a Dream, Chapter 5, The Fifth Day, Part 2, Science & Reform Schools, Section 8, Being a Victim, Paragraphs 22-25
Albert had called me the previous day, asking if it were 'alright' if he moved in tomorrow. I repeated my consent, and, with gratitude, he made one more request: he asked if I could drive him. I, of course, agreed, thinking nothing more of it, and, the next day, getting off at Holland Park Station, I crossed the perilous avenue, making my way around the corner and down the street. Olympia was kind enough to open the door for me.
– Title 3, Regarding a Dream, Chapter 4, The Fourth Day, Part 2, The Assembly & Government Reform, Section 6, Being Obedient, Paragraph 6
INDIE: It is so beautiful, but Olympia cannot play it. Once in a while she gets halfway. But that's as far as she can get.
ANDY: It's very difficult.
INDIE: But you can play it, yes?
ANDY: I can play it.
INDIE: Will you play it tomorrow?
ANDY: Is the party tomorrow?
INDIE: Yes.
ANDY: Then yes of course.
INDIE: The whole thing?
ANDY: If I can remember it.
– Title 3, Regarding a Dream, Chapter 1, The First Day, Part 1, Victory & Calendar Reform, Section 9, Intoxication, Paragraphs 146-155
We shall have to keep discussing this later. I do not think I can write any more: I am almost unconscious. Besides, I think I've written enough. It's been a week since I began my daily journal - that is plenty.
Tomorrow morning, I'll send you my work. I hope you'll enjoy it. But, of course, by the time you read this, it will no longer be tomorrow morning. So I rephrase: I hope you have enjoyed my work.
– Title 3, Regarding a Dream, Chapter 7, The Seventh Day, Part 1, Strength & Security Sector Reform, Section 2, Facing a Choice, Paragraphs 23-24
But there is something different about living day to day, wondering if you'll wake up tomorrow. It's really quite astonishing that Albert was able to function so normally; there was no hint of illness: he seemed completely healthy until the moment he just didn't get up. Maybe I missed something - Indiana's behavior was completely occlusive: there was nothing else on my mind.
– Title 3, Regarding a Dream, Chapter 1, The First Day, Part 1, Victory & Calendar Reform, Section 3, Wondering, Paragraph 4
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.
"It's not like that," explained Shephard. "We went to school together."
"I'm happy for you."
Shephard asked about the local bazaar. The hostess told him he was in luck. Tomorrow was Sunday. The crowds would spill onto the main road. It couldn't be missed. Shephard thanked her.
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.
MS. JACKSON: Thank you.
GREY GOOSE: You can even sleep here tonight. As for tomorrow, I can't be sure. We'll just have to wait and see.
MS. JACKSON: What?
GREY GOOSE: You may be on the sofa bed for a while.
MS. JACKSON: You knew all along.
GREY GOOSE: You're not the only snitch on this island.
MS. JACKSON: I shouldn't have trusted those Australians.
GREY GOOSE: Men are all alike.
MS. JACKSON: Fill them with enough drink, they'll spill their guts.
GREY GOOSE: They'll betray their confidential informants.
– ACT II, lines 491-500
(KOKOMO exits. GREY GOOSE enters.)
GREY GOOSE: My darling Polynesian beauty, Fletcher must be right. It's pointless for me to put the moves on you - especially since it's obvious you're in love with him. My chances of success were always slim. I never lost faith in a woman's whim. I was certain, if I tried hard enough, you would let me taste-test your sweeter stuff. Each one of my advances you rebuffed. You're too good. My situation has changed now that my dear wife and I are estranged. Perhaps some trickery can be arranged. If I were to slip softly into your bed, not smelling like chattel, but like that perfume you gave my son - that little brat - who cares more about annoying my wife than pursuing the love of his own life, even though I'm the one she causes strife - perchance I might convince you with a kiss - before you discover my artifice - that I am the best way to earthly bliss. It would give me joy. My desire to light this house on fire would be assuaged. Despite what I have said, I will never ignite another house again. I am reborn. Ever since your mistress unleashed her scorn, making me sit in filth, lost and forlorn, in my old cowshed, I have taken stock. I'll no longer blindly follow the flock. I cannot yet say the same for my cock. If my wife's got a lover, I'll be damned if I don't. I'm not going to be crammed away. I'll come back with my monogrammed pajamas. I'll drink champagne and cut loose like there's no tomorrow. I'll introduce Kokomo to my little one-eyed goose and she'll say I'm her daddy. My excitement notwithstanding, I must not invite suspicion. I'll save my strength for tonight!
– ACT II, line 30
FLETCHER: (massaging) Don't get testy. This is for your own good.
ALICE: Tell me something in Norfuk.
FLETCHER: Like what?
ALICE: I don't know. I like the way it sounds.
FLETCHER: Watawieh.
ALICE: I know what that means. It means, "Hi! How are you?"
FLETCHER: We gwen rama morla night.
ALICE: What does that mean?
FLETCHER: It means, "Let's go fishing tomorrow night."
A story book full of short fiction stories. An interesting bedtime mystery. A fairy tale. Science fiction romance. Adult life. Uninspiring gay fiction. Horror.
"Tomorrow" does not make an appearance in Miscellaneous Dingbats
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 tomorrow 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 "tomorrow." I hope I can get it done sometime soon. -Michal
Life is a spinning sphere with Joy at one pole and Sadness at the other. Each continuously feeding its pair. Joy flanked by the emotions of Trust on one side, Surprise on the other. Trust leading to Anticipation; anticipation leading to Fear. Surprise leading to Disgust; disgust leading to Anger. Anger and Fear fueling our Sadness. Sadness giving way, in time, to Joy; through Hope, an orientation towards Love. Love, an openness towards Joy, Trust and Surprise; the sum of emotion; emotion amplified by others. Multiplied and divided, in equal parts. Such that to those from whom it has been subtracted, we must add. Until we are whole.
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