tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post4391574911667350294..comments2024-03-28T22:01:15.356+00:00Comments on You are witty and pretty! : Snippet: Sketch Journal Brittahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-88117168512362328722022-05-15T07:50:33.309+01:002022-05-15T07:50:33.309+01:00Dear Helen, sorry that I couldn't answer earli...Dear Helen, sorry that I couldn't answer earlier, I was in Hamburg and Berlin - and I agree. The subjunctive is a form of possibility, a nuance that changes what is said - and as you say: language moulds reality - and it's perception. (If I go very far: also the responsibility)Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-48572792825384007822022-05-05T02:22:29.870+01:002022-05-05T02:22:29.870+01:00I don't like the use of the present tense for ...I don't like the use of the present tense for past events. It sounds like an intentional attempt to rewrite history. helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10792877540911251690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-63950669398405265722022-05-03T06:00:43.449+01:002022-05-03T06:00:43.449+01:00Thank you, dear Pip!
I also seldom get the blues,...Thank you, dear Pip! <br />I also seldom get the blues, and eagerly picked up your graphic expression "to have the hump" - there I see a link to dear Mr. James: posture! It is really important (and I have to struggle a bit to remind myself to stand tall). <br />As my late Friend and Whatsoever Barefoot doctor said to difficult moods: "As long as you enjoy it..." <br />My answer to the blues is writing, reading, talking, walking, nature, gratitude, drawing - all things that "draw" me out of myself (I forgot "cooking" - a very funny book is "Blue Jelly" by Debby Bull - though it is a onetime-read, not to buy. Or the very, very light diet of "Monsieur Pampelmouse" of Michael Bond (creator of Paddington Bear - greetings from the triplets! - a fictional food critic and detective in the genre "cozy detective novels")<br />Yes, I know music by Friedemann Bach. (His life was heavy, and he seemed to have the hump justly). <br />As to music I found something so wonderful that I will put it into another "snippet". Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-47024243880419063092022-05-03T05:35:09.190+01:002022-05-03T05:35:09.190+01:00That is a witty summary of what happens to languag...That is a witty summary of what happens to language, Joanne! All time people have complained about the decline of language and mores, but nowadays it happens so rapidly. Sheer laziness, ignorance or indifference, "helped" by autocorrection (though, to be fair: many journalists don't have a good training anymore and are paid badly)Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-38510157553302299692022-05-03T01:11:12.835+01:002022-05-03T01:11:12.835+01:00The subjunctive tense is going the way of spelling...The subjunctive tense is going the way of spelling. There is no mood, no reflection. It is all as it sounds and in the present.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-79275643988426633022022-05-03T00:39:07.383+01:002022-05-03T00:39:07.383+01:00You have a lovely hand, Britta! Another thing to a...You have a lovely hand, Britta! Another thing to admire around here :)<br /><br />I'm not often afflicted by sour moods and if I am, I quite like to have a bit of a wallow, for it is such a novelty. And for why do we have within us the ability to experience such things if not to experience them? Anyway, it will rarely last as something amusing usually passes my way and it vanishes like a soap bubble. <br /><br />Lovely music also has that effect. And speaking of interesting brothers, some lovely music warmed our cockles the other night when we heard played a baroque lovely by the elder and lesser known of the Bach brothers and sons of JS, one Wilhelm Friedemann. I defy anyone to say they still have the hump after a joyous 10 minutes listening to Sinfonia in D minor!Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-48252890574247551232022-05-02T16:59:38.373+01:002022-05-02T16:59:38.373+01:00Please read my post Please read my post Rajani Rehanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439571117569471650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-2323636479844646582022-05-02T16:58:17.203+01:002022-05-02T16:58:17.203+01:00Beautiful blog Beautiful blog Rajani Rehanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439571117569471650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-68983728194662491862022-05-02T12:49:54.555+01:002022-05-02T12:49:54.555+01:00Dear Rachel, thank you! Yes, I wanted the subjunct...Dear Rachel, thank you! Yes, I wanted the subjunctive - and as it vanished in the Netherlands almost completely, and is in German an endangered species too, I thought: maybe in England it is the same phenomenon? <br />I am glad that it isn't - I love languages which are full of nuances (and not only full of emojis, to relate to Tom's post. <br /> "( :-)" Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-21503475024088042602022-05-02T11:32:15.089+01:002022-05-02T11:32:15.089+01:00I try to stop thinking about the future.I try to stop thinking about the future.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-34369281440415369042022-05-02T08:38:56.969+01:002022-05-02T08:38:56.969+01:00In the subjunctive mood you would have been correc...In the subjunctive mood you would have been correct in using were. The red line was not differentiating between subjunctive tense and past tense. <br /><br />Good to see a page of your sketch diary. What do I do to lift my mood? I am usually in a good mood anyway but if necessary to change my mood I think happy thoughts, move on to a different subject and brush myself down and carry on. Have a good day Britta. xx <br /><br />Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.com