Friday, April 07, 2006
New Vocabulary Words
I'm a pretty good speaker of English and it has been a while since I learned a new word, but this week I learned two!
Auteur, n. A filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style.
One F2C: Freedom to Connect participant described it as an auteur conference.
Conurbation, n. A predominantly urban region including adjacent towns and suburbs; a metropolitan area. I could not find its cognate, "conurbated", which I now know is an adjective that means contiguous and urban.
Thanks to Jorge Ortiz and J.H. Snider!
Auteur, n. A filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style.
One F2C: Freedom to Connect participant described it as an auteur conference.
Conurbation, n. A predominantly urban region including adjacent towns and suburbs; a metropolitan area. I could not find its cognate, "conurbated", which I now know is an adjective that means contiguous and urban.
Thanks to Jorge Ortiz and J.H. Snider!
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Comments:
David:
I am not a good speaker of english (or spanish for that matter). Turning conurbation into an adjective, could turn out to be a sin in the english language. If that is the case please don't hold me accountable for that one :-)
Jorge
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I am not a good speaker of english (or spanish for that matter). Turning conurbation into an adjective, could turn out to be a sin in the english language. If that is the case please don't hold me accountable for that one :-)
Jorge
