The essays are going slowly, probably because I'm doing a word count after every line.
What do you think about using the word "indeed"? When I write it at the start of a sentence I feel quite important, but when I read it back later on it seems a bit twatty.
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In newfoundland we always use the word indeed ("indeed I is, me old cock")
ReplyDeleteI laugh when I hear salty old men saying it.
If you're running over in word count forget indeed, use an exclamation mark at the end instead! (The yoof use loads of !s with 11s interspersed but as this is higher/further ed we'll not go there)
ReplyDeleteAlso skip and wherever possible. A comma is just as good at making the reader pause but doesn't count as a number.
I love commas, me. I'm comman as muck.
I always used to use "indeed" in my essays. Indeed, I still do it in correspondence and other things for work, as well as in my speech. See? It works quite well.
ReplyDeleteWhy not sprinkle in a few henceforths, heretofores, notwithstandings, forsooths and verilys?
ReplyDeleteBut you may want to avoid turning anything in with 'twatty'.
i use it a lot, generally when i'm trying to sound like a twat (or when i haven't been paying attention because someone is boring me and i want to be really obvious about it and let them know. because i am a twat)
ReplyDeleteI was just saying yesterday that I say "indeed" all the time, but more in the manner of "I can indeed". And of course you have to love "Indeedin I will/can/was..".
ReplyDelete"Notwithstanding"
ReplyDeleteI've never used that word in my life, but I really want to. I just can't figure out how to get it in.
When I hear/read the word indeed I picture/hear an english Gentleman speaking. I think it´s cute.
ReplyDeleteÚff! Indeed I don´t envy you writing an essay. - (Can you use it like this?)
I´ll soon be forced to though since I´ve quit my job and am back to school. The problem I have with essays is Indeed the word count! I hate it! Because I´ve usually said all that I have to say about the matter long before I reach the mandatory amount of word. Argh!
Good luck!
Ahhh, my favorite word: "twatty"!
ReplyDeleteWell, if you're running out of cool words I have to point you in the direction of thesaurus.com.... helps me write damn essays (well, actually research papers but hey same diff). They list synonyms for indeed includes Indubitably- possibly the twattiest word of all time.
ReplyDelete'Notwithstanding' is exactly the word you should be using at this level. Think of it this way:
ReplyDeleteAt GCSE (O-level for us fossils), you use 'therefore'. A list of facts, one following from the other.
At A-level you use 'however'. Some facts that support an argument, followed by some facts that contradict it. Finish with a conclusion (usually a compromise between the two).
But at smartypants student level, you use 'notwithstanding'. You list a whole load of facts, then say "Notwithstanding all these points, I'm still sticking to my argument that Friedrich Nietzsche was a gayer, and so blimmin there."
I hope this helps.
you can say "indeed," but limit 1 per essay.
ReplyDelete(i tell you this as one who marks university students' essays, so i have some modicome of authority, despite not knowing how to spell "modicome.")
I've just used 'thus' for the first time in my writing memory, and I'm feeling very twatty indeed.
ReplyDeleteThe first draft of my thesis was all "heretofores" and "notwithstandings", "neverthelesses" and other multisyllabic buggery. Then my fingers got tired and I started in with the so-s and that-is-whys and wrote what one of my profs called "the most readable thesis I've graded in years" and got a ridiculously high grade. So by trying to not sound twatty I got a grade so high that three years later the rest of my graduating class still thinks of me as "that twat that got a 9.5"
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, I feel your pain.
I like the term "multisyllabic buggery". I'll use that next.
ReplyDeleteHowabout 'furthermore', can you use that instead or 'however'?
ReplyDeleteMy first essay is finished and it is now a jumbling mess of multisyllabic buggery. Thank you, everybody, for your contributions.
ReplyDeleteOh dear - indeed foresooth I am rather late to this discussion therefore I will bugger off and not say what I was going to however afore-mention.
ReplyDeleteOnly guilt-ridden Catholics can sin in thought, word, or in deed.
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