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| 2 |  没有文字... | 74 |
| 3 |  4 Ways To Reveal A Secret | 135 |
| 4 | Which American entertainment icon is also known as Ol' blue eyes? | 137 |
| 5 |  Happy New Work Week! | 132 |
| 6 |  The Doorway Effect
Raise your hand if this ever happened to you! No one here will see you, but do it anyway.
You walk into a room in your house, say, kitchen and you suddenly think “Why am I here?” You totally forgot what you went to the kitchen for.
I can see lots of hands going up, cuz this sort of thing happens to all of us, and English, being the wordful language that it is, has a word for this phenomenon too: The Doorway Effect.
Whenever this happens, we feel as if we’ve just stuck our heads through a portal of forgetfulness. Selective forgetfulness, because we don’t forget our entire lives or God forbid, the reason for our existence when we are briefly spellbound by the doorway effect. Our brains have simply changed context and sometimes that can make the thought we had a moment ago harder to retrieve. Shucks!
So the next time you walk into a room and completely forget what you wanted, you can tell yourself “I’ve been hit in the head by that damn doorway effect”.
Unless you get hit by another effect and end up forgetting this one, then you can ease your addled frustration by remembering that English has a word for everything. Even the weird stuff.
Have a bizarrely beautiful day! | 132 |
| 7 | In case you ever wondered what the longest English word is, I’m not going to tell you. It’s not a dick move. Quite the contrary. The actual longest word in English refers to some disease and I opted to spare you the early morning depression.
It’s all sun and fun here on EnEx, so here’s the second longest word in English: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. It’s a fun little word that ironically means ‘fear of long words’ and looks like most Russian words to me. | 114 |
| 8 |  Unbreak My Heart
One of my stalwart students texted me a great question the other day. One related to the famous Toni Braxton hit from the early 2000’s. “Why ‘unbreak my heart’?” he asked, sounding a bit puzzled by the weird verb, “why not ‘don’t break my heart’?”
As someone who does little besides teach and consummate my union with English every night, I gotta say that questions like these from my stupendously studious students excite me much in the same way that secret crush notes excite teenagers when they pass them around in class. So I clicked the record button and got to answering straightaway.
'Don’t break my heart' is something that one says before the event. If my girlfriend threatens to leave me, I might, in a moment of utter desperation, plead “don’t break my heart” to stop her from making good on her threat and make her stay. This is purely hypothetical of course. My girlfriend would never do such a thing even if she existed.
Ms. Braxton is in an altogether different situation. By the time she sings “un-break my heart,” the original heartbreak had already occurred. Her lover had already left and she is asking him to reverse what had happened and make her heart whole again.
But how on earth is this possible? My fastidious student was not buying it, even or especially after I told him that people often say things like I can’t undo what I did. “This is just wishful thinking, right?” he asked in his follow-up message without missing a beat, “because how can you undo something after it’s done?”. To which I replied with the resounding affirmation of a proud teacher.
English often uses un- to describe the reversal of an action or its result: tie becomes untie, lock becomes unlock, wrap becomes unwrap, and do becomes undo. So in principle, break can also become unbreak.
The catch though is that un- can sometimes reverse the action itself, while in other cases it only addresses the result. ‘Untying’ my shoes reverses the action completely, because doing so twiddles the laces loose. ‘Unlocking’ the door does the same thing, the lock on the door was shut and now it’s open.
‘Undoing’ of the sort of ‘unbreak’, however, cannot possibly reverse the action. We cannot ‘unsee’ something once we’ve already seen it, and we sure as heck cannot walk into a repair shop and ask the repairman to unbreak a vase that was knocked over and shattered into pieces.
We can’t literally travel backward in time and make an event unhappen this way. But language has an idiomatic dimension where actions don’t have to be literally reversible before we can talk about reversing their consequences. When we ask someone to ‘undo’ an action in the sense of ‘unbreak’ my heart, we are not asking them to take back the original action or turn it around as though it never happened, we are instead asking the person to reverse the consequences of their action and contain or repair the damage that it caused.
And that is precisely what Toni Braxton is asking for. She's telling her lover that he has already broken her heart and now he needs to fix it. Undo the damage. And somehow, unbreak my heart says all of that in just three words. | 147 |
| 9 | Which sentence correctly expresses an unlikely or hypothetical situation in the present? [Second conditional] | 105 |
| 10 |  Russian onomatopoeias are the best. ‘Effervescent tablets’ are ‘Шипучих’, I assume, because of the ‘shhhh’ they make when they’re dissolving in water. Reminds me of how ‘gargle’ is ‘Сделать бул бул’.
Onomatopoeias are words made from the sounds the objects they describe make: bang, crash, boom, meow, woof and quack! Lovely. But I still prefer бул бул. And even if I’m wrong about its origin, ‘Шипучих’ tickles me pink every time I hear it. | 132 |
| 11 |  It's a different kind of New Year; the Academic New Year. So happy New Year to all you fantabulous EnEx members out there!
That's Danny, friend of the channel, getting ready for 2nd grade. To him and to you I wish a year of great accomplishments, ambitions coming true, transformative learning, self discovery, poetic communication and all the stuff of worthwhile living!
Thank you for being a part of this community, spreading the joy and the learning. | 135 |
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| 13 | A very good afternoon to you guys,
Hope you all are doing great at the start of this new week. Here's the link to my latest article on my VK page. Join me on VK to stay up to speed with all the articles and essays I post. Thank you.
https://vk.ru/wall327403423_905 | 164 |
| 14 |  A beautiful day☀️From the heart ❤️ No edits. | 167 |
| 15 |  A beautiful day ☀️ | 1 |
| 16 |  Game recognizes Game
'Game recognizes game', often simplified as 'game knows game' is an urban American slang used to indicate that a person with some real skills, experiences or savvy can readily recognize these same qualities in other people when they encounter them.
People who are good at something can instinctively recognize others who are good at that exact same thing; a seasoned historian can spot another from the way they speak and present historical facts, a chess master knows when he’s up against another master, and on the more seedy side, a con artist knows another when they deal with them.
Girls be tripping over Marcus, not knowing he be playin' them for sex, but Jerome see straight through that play cuz he a playa hisself and game knows game.
The word 'game' in this vernacular comes with an attestation of value. To say that someone 'got game' is to acknowledge that the person has some real skills, or is talented in sports, dating or other social situations. Similarly, 'get your game on' is a command given to a person to cheer them on for a competition, challenge or big event.
The ultimate message behind the phrase 'game recognizes game' is that experts always see right through pretenders, imposters, phonies and wannabes. Since we can't fake skill for long without being spotted, it is best to just go with what we’ve got and be ourselves. | 158 |
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| 19 | What is “traveling” in basketball? | 133 |
| 20 |  An active morning with a walk and a climb and a pant and a gasp | 132 |
