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Author Archives: Sonia Andras
My Face to the Light: Alice Walker’s Thoughts about Christmas
As I was reading Alice Walker (best known for her book The Color Purple) collection of essays entitled Anything We Love Can Be Saved, I thought her ideas only represented me on an abstract – perhaps metaphorical level. I can … Continue reading
The Importance of Being … Unaware People Understand What I Talk (In a Foreign Language)
With such a long and complicated (but cutely suggestive, right) title, you may wonder what I am on about right now. Well, I came up with the idea a couple of days ago when I was standing in a Costa … Continue reading
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Tagged Costa, First language, Google, Language, London, Romania, Romanian, Romanian language
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What’s in a Word?
This is an excerpt of one my my articles (click on this phrase to read the whole text) from my Helium account, which I think is relevant to the world not only relating the “Arab Spring” or the “Occupy” movements, but … Continue reading
Flash Fiction: At the bus station (from my Helium)
One of my Helium articles: It was cold… So cold. I was rushing to take the bus home through the crowds and dreaming about an ideal world in which I was the reincarnation of Bruce Lee and my kung fu … Continue reading
Sometimes I Wish I Had Poetic Talent
Well… I was walking near one of the canals in Tottenham Hale towards the twilight (not that twilight, ugh, I can’t even use this word without sparkly cheesy connotations any more, bless you whatever-is-your-name-woman-who-invented-sparkly-vampires-sensitive-to-the-humans’-emotions) and it just felt … umm… like … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Corneliu M. Popescu, English language, Literature, Mihai Eminescu, Online Writing, Poetry, YouTube
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On standard sentences, political correctness and reciting poems dictated by Scaraotsky
This is not a new idea, nor is it new as compared to other posts I’ve made in this blog (here, or here for example) or in other places, but I never addressed this issue in its own blog post. … Continue reading
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Tagged Copyright, English language, Language, Linguistics, Natural, Political correctness, Social Sciences, United State
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How Different Are We, Really?
I was thinking this while seeing different families with small children. Don’t we all have the same problems as children? -I want something but adults say I can’t so I behave badly. -I don’t want something but adults say I … Continue reading
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Tagged Behavior, Career, Child, Developmental psychology, Emotion, Psychological abuse, Psychologist, Psychology
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Things We Never Like To Admit
Humans have this innate tendency to think, create and… shift the blame. In other words, since we got created – or evolved -, we have perfected this incredibly cynical skill to make “I didn’t do this” sound almost plausible. We … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Blame, Earth, Human, Philosophy, Philosophy of Logic, Politics, Samson, United States, Warfare and Conflict
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If King Michael is a traitor … then what is Basescu?
Romanian President Traian Basescu called HMS King Michael of Romania a traitor…. How far can a *supposedly* democratic president go when expressing personal opinions and such in public? ActMedia Romanian News Agency:http://www.actmedia.eu/2011/06/24/top+story/royal+house+will+not+comment+on+p… Yahoo News:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110623/ap_on_re_eu/eu_romania_basescu_king The Kansas City Star:http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/23/2969149/romanian-president-launches-atta… Romania Report … Continue reading
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Tagged Nicolae Ceauşescu, President of Romania, Romania, Securitate, Traian Băsescu, United States
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Face to Face with Propaganda: Romania presented to the English-speaking world in 1985
Well, I’m not going to comment much, for the ones who know how the (not only Communist) propagandistic wooden language sounds like, this post will be as clear as the day, for those who don’t – read my comments, and … Continue reading →