Writing exercise 11
Today is a national holiday called "Bunka no Hi," or "a Culture day." It falls on Friday, so people are going to have three days off in a row, though it has nothing to do with me, except that a special keirin race is taking place over this weekend, as is usual on a string of holidays like this.
From today's news (Asahi Shinbun, Nov 02): As Japanese food makes its way into the world, bureaucrats are now planning to establish a kind of international certification system for Japanese foods that is meant to dictate what Japanese cuisines should be like and how they should be made in an authentic way, thus trying to extend their control even beyond the border of our country. It looks like they want to have control of just about everything.
I've finished reading some of the books I have left half-read over the course of the past few months. One of them was “Airframe” by Michael Crichton, which was not really a compelling read but which is easy to read as it is not laden with as many literary words as novels like Stephen King's. I'm also reading "Different seasons" by King right now. The first part of it, a story about a prison break, was made into a movie. The novel seems to me much more compelling than the movie.
The thing I want to do now is increase my vocabulary of English that I can put into writing, but it takes time and a conscious effort to do so. Though it’s true that just reading books doesn’t help, it seems impossible to increase one’s vocabulary without reading at all.
My understanding is that information is conveyed in either of two ways: Electromagnetic radiation and language, or signs. The first is achieved by means of electric signals sent by electric installations as well as by human brains. Sight is also another form of information transmission by electromagnetic radiation. Telepathy has nothing to do with occultism. It’s how human brains, consisting of ordinary atoms, emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of waves that contain a lot of information. This allows us to recognize any threat lurking behind us, without relying on sight, or to know what someone is thinking about, without even exchanging words.
It seems that semantics is less talked about these days than it used to be. What semantics tells us is that the behavior of all animals including human beings is inextricably linked with language or signs. Language seems as important or more important than electromagnetic radiation as a means of conveying information. It would be safe to say that it’s almost impossible to overemphasize the importance of learning languages.
From today's news (Asahi Shinbun, Nov 02): As Japanese food makes its way into the world, bureaucrats are now planning to establish a kind of international certification system for Japanese foods that is meant to dictate what Japanese cuisines should be like and how they should be made in an authentic way, thus trying to extend their control even beyond the border of our country. It looks like they want to have control of just about everything.
I've finished reading some of the books I have left half-read over the course of the past few months. One of them was “Airframe” by Michael Crichton, which was not really a compelling read but which is easy to read as it is not laden with as many literary words as novels like Stephen King's. I'm also reading "Different seasons" by King right now. The first part of it, a story about a prison break, was made into a movie. The novel seems to me much more compelling than the movie.
The thing I want to do now is increase my vocabulary of English that I can put into writing, but it takes time and a conscious effort to do so. Though it’s true that just reading books doesn’t help, it seems impossible to increase one’s vocabulary without reading at all.
My understanding is that information is conveyed in either of two ways: Electromagnetic radiation and language, or signs. The first is achieved by means of electric signals sent by electric installations as well as by human brains. Sight is also another form of information transmission by electromagnetic radiation. Telepathy has nothing to do with occultism. It’s how human brains, consisting of ordinary atoms, emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of waves that contain a lot of information. This allows us to recognize any threat lurking behind us, without relying on sight, or to know what someone is thinking about, without even exchanging words.
It seems that semantics is less talked about these days than it used to be. What semantics tells us is that the behavior of all animals including human beings is inextricably linked with language or signs. Language seems as important or more important than electromagnetic radiation as a means of conveying information. It would be safe to say that it’s almost impossible to overemphasize the importance of learning languages.
posted by Tanaka @ 4:42 AM
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