{"id":54056,"date":"2018-01-01T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=54056"},"modified":"2021-05-21T23:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T23:10:45","slug":"short-texts-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=54056","title":{"rendered":"Short texts & proverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00abGood stuff, if brief, twice as good.\u00bb \u00a0– \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>It was an Aragonese writer that said that \u00a0(Baltasar Graci\u00e1n<\/strong>)<\/address>\n

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\u0398<\/p>\n

There are two<\/strong> good reasons why English learners should take interest in\u00a0these expressions of oral tradition.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

For one thing, they provide an extraordinary word bank you can always turn to when you need. Learning words in isolation is not<\/span> <\/strong>very useful, and by storing them in context they get\u00a0easier to remember.<\/a><\/p>\n

Even though you might never have a chance to use\u00a0adages in real\u00a0life (they’re such well-known sayings that we often leave out the second part in conversation …), proverbs are an invaluable aid to\u00a0improve rhythm, stress and intonation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0are meaningful short messages, always consisting of two<\/strong> distinctive chunks (of words), perfectly balanced<\/span> to each other, and often involving word rhymes<\/em>, as well.<\/p>\n

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And remember: these are fixed<\/em> expressions;\u00a0you have to be word perfect<\/em> if you use them\u00a0 \u21d3<\/p>\n

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The graphic shows the words that are used in English proverbs<\/strong>, with the size of each word indicating how often it occurs \u21d3<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Proverbs explained …\u00a0\u2192[01]\u2190<\/a> \/\u00a0\u2192[02]\u2190<\/a> \/\u00a0\u2192[03]\u2190<\/a><\/h6>\n

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\u00abThe Genius, Wit and Spirit of a Nation are discovered in its proverbs.\u2033\u00a0– Francis Bacon<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"Trust\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"shootM\"<\/a><\/h1>\n
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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u21d2 \u00a0\u00a0EPITAPHS<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0 . \u00a0 .<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a4\u00a0 oh – oh … it’s written on the wall! \u00a0(Graffitti<\/strong>\u00a0– Nigel Rees)<\/p>\n

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Down with gravity<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Fighting for peace is like f<\/strong>ucking for virginity<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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Buggery is boring<\/span><\/h5>\n
Incest is relatively boring<\/span><\/h5>\n
Necrophilia is dead boring<\/span><\/h5>\n
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– Unreliable, full of broken promises, pretty to look at,\u00a0but horrible to face<\/span><\/h6>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00abGood stuff, if brief, twice as good.\u00bb – It was an Aragonese writer that said that (Baltasar Graci\u00e1n) <\/p>\n

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\u0398<\/p>\n

There are two good reasons why English learners should take interest in these expressions of oral tradition. <\/p>\n

For one thing, they provide an extraordinary word bank you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,177],"tags":[187,201,206],"class_list":["post-54056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phonology","category-texts","tag-advice","tag-link","tag-text","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54056"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55317,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056\/revisions\/55317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}